Africa-Press – Angola. Two hundred thousand head of cattle should be vaccinated in five municipalities in Namibe against contagious pleuropneumonia, symptomatic and hematic anthrax, as well as nodular dermatitis, in a campaign that started today, Wednesday.
Speaking to ANGOP today Wednesday, the head of Namibe’s veterinary services, Luis Paulo Bié, stressed in the previous year that 48,712 were immunized and that the campaign launched in the village of Carujamba, commune of Lucira, municipality of Moçâmedes, has 68 technicians, distributed in 15 brigades and will run until the end of the first semester.
Luis Paulo Bié pointed out that in the main municipality 32,000 head of cattle will be vaccinated, while Camucuio and Bibala with 60,000 each, Tômbwa with 16,000 and Virei with 30,000.
He urged the animal-raising population to take their herds to the vaccination sleeves, so that they can be vaccinated and be disease-free.
The official who lamented the lack of sufficient doses to meet the number of animals to be vaccinated, as 62,000 doses from the previous campaign are in stock.
Justified that vaccines are produced by orders and have not yet arrived in the country. “We started the campaign with the medicines we have hoping that before the end, the doses will arrive in the country, as well as in the province in a particular way” she said.
He also made it known that, for the prevention of certain diseases for cattle, the sector is carrying out work on the sanitary cord on the border with the province of Cunene, because of the foot-and-mouth disease that continues to attack the animals in that neighboring town.
He suggested that the sector, in order to respond to its actions in five municipalities, needs more than 100 new staff to join the existing thirty, as well as the lack of transport means to travel to places with difficult access.
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