He Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) does not anticipate that there will be a commercial vaccine available in the field in the short term to prevent Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHE), which mainly affects cattle and deer and is not transmissible to humans.
The MAPA has reported on this aspect in a written response to a question that the Sumar parliamentary group had asked in the Congress of Deputies about EHE to know if this Department plans to include EHE as a disease within the sanitation program. rancher.
The MAPA clarifies that during this last year it has held several meetings and contacts with the vaccine-producing laboratories to inform them about the importance of developing a specific vaccine against the virus “and offer our support in its development.”
The Ministry details that “there are already laboratories that have shown interest in working in this line” and, “MAPA is collaborating with them”, but “it is not planned to have a vaccine” in the short term. On the other hand, it points out that the inclusion of a disease in a livestock sanitation program requires having the necessary tools to achieve its control and, if possible, its eradication.
However, the transmission of the EHE virus through vectors, together with the absence of an authorized vaccine in the EU, makes the fight against the disease “particularly complicated”, so in the current circumstances “it is not possible to include to EHE within the livestock sanitation programs currently underway” in Spain.
2023-11-22 06:00:13
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