The Government of the State of Mexico carries out vaccination in 85% of its rabbit inventory

To prevent the outbreak of the rabbit viral hemorrhagic disease, the Government of the State of Mexico vaccinates 85 percent of the rabbit population that exists in the state. The Secretary of the Field, Mercedes Colín Guadarrama, supervised the rabbit production units in the La Purísima community, where there is an inventory of 6,766 rabbit heads, specimens that will be vaccinated in the municipality. The entity has a production of 203 thousand 675 rabbits, a figure that places the State of Mexico in the first place in the rabbit industry, and this action will benefit 3 thousand 700 producers. 174 thousand vaccines are applied, covering 85 percent of the rabbit population, and it is estimated that the rest of the rabbit population, approximately 15 percent that remain to be vaccinated, will be done by the federal government. This vaccine is created by the National Service for Agrifood Health, Safety and Quality (Senasica), which prevents hemorrhagic disease in rabbits. This viral ...