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A large cattle vaccination campaign has just started on Saturday 19 July. 285,000 will receive a dose to try to stop the propagation of dermatosis and to avoid euthanasia. Viral disease can be fatal for the animal.
To no longer see slaughter images, vaccination began on Saturday 19 July. Since the end of June, nodular dermatosis, a disease that has touched herds of cattle, has been expanding in Savoy and Haute-Savoie. The only solution so far for the authorities: order the cutting of the whole herd as soon as a cow has symptoms. “All the farmers are afraid. We are all afraid. Tomorrow, there is a sick beast. We kill everything. We kill everyone”Has deplored Benjamin Loizon, breeder.
The first doses of vaccine arrived in the region. They should make it possible to treat animals within a radius of 50 kilometers around the first focus of contamination on the departments of Savoy, Haute-Savoie, Isère and Ain. A total of 285,000 cattle should be vaccinated. Like all, Pierre-Jean Duchêne, breeder, hopes that the precious doses will soon come to her farm. In the meantime, he had to adapt his farm to avoid transmission. “We have confined our cows since June 30 (…). They are under large fans, first for heat, it must be said, but also to help disperse flies. They were put on our backs on their backs as soon as we have the appearance of the disease “he explained.
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