France expands bovine vaccination for dermatosis to the border area with Spain

The French Ministry of Agriculture stated in a communiqué that "while the health situation concerning the NCD is stabilized in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region" (southeastern France), "it remains worrying in Occitania", in the south of the country, where most of the regions to which the control measures have now been extended are concentrated "to eradicate the disease". The extension of these measures, which occurred after two new outbreaks of contagion were confirmed on December 9 and 10 in the departments of Ariège and Hautes-Pyrénées, involves the implementation of protection zones, which entail movement restrictions within a 20-kilometer radius of each outbreak, and surveillance zones, with preventive and cattle control measures within about 50 kilometers. These two departments join those of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Landes, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, and those of Haute-Garonne, Aude, Gers, and Pyrénées-Orientales, in Occitania, which covers the entirety of the region ...