Since its arrival in Spain in 2022, the epizootic hemorrhagic disease (BEFORE) has spread throughout the peninsula and the livestock and political sectors have urged the Government to increase its measures to stop it.
In this sense, since summer issued in the Congress of Deputies a written question to the Executive in which it was asked if it was planned to include the disease within the livestock sanitation program.
In this regard, since Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory They remember that for this we must have the means to eradicate the disease. “The inclusion of a disease in a livestock sanitation program requires having the necessary tools to achieve control and, if possible, its eradication,” they explain.
However, they point out that the transmission of the epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus by means of vectors, together with the absence of an authorized vaccine in the European Union, “makes the fight against the disease particularly complicated, so in the current circumstances It is not possible to include EHE within livestock sanitation programs currently underway in our country.”
The Government points out that, in order to provide livestock farmers with the necessary tools to fight the disease, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAP) has held several meetings during this last year and contacts with laboratories vaccine producers to inform them about the importance of developing a vaccine specific against the virus and offer our support in its development.
“Although there are already laboratories that have shown interest in working in this line and MAPA is collaborating with them, it is not planned to have a vaccine commercial available in the short term field“, they conclude.
2023-10-31 08:12:00
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