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A vaccination campaign against lumpy skin disease is affecting cattle farms in the southwest. Although it is welcomed by breeders, the discovery of new cases in vaccinated herds revives their concerns and questions the time limit for vaccine protection.
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A massive vaccination campaign was launched to curb the spread of lumpy skin disease in cattle breeding. For several days, the departments of south-west France have benefited from the operation. Benoît Jourtau, breeder, was able, for example, to vaccinate nearly 160 animals last week. However, he deplores a campaign that is too late: “It’s been a month and a half since we asked the minister for the vaccination zone to extend to Ariège, to the entire department of Ariège and Haute-Garonne, and that was not heard. That’s it. So there, we have the impression of still being putting out the fire, in fact.”
If the campaign was expected by farmers, the discovery of new cases of lumpy skin disease in a vaccinated farm in Saint-Marsal, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, last Friday, called into question the health strategy. The Ministry of Agriculture specified in a press release: “A vaccinated animal can become ill, not because the vaccine would not work, but because the vaccine has a ramp-up time of 21 days.”
This delay further fuels the concern of breeders, who have been mobilized for several days to protect their herds.
