In Entre Ríos, they warn that changes in the national tick plan would compromise ranchers' fight against it.

As the general coordinator of the technical area of Fucofa, veterinarian Marcial Buiatti is one of the most knowledgeable about the battle that this health foundation is waging against the dreaded tick, which it already faced 20 years ago. “The tick is a parasite that Entre Ríos can never give up on fighting,” defines the specialist, who is aware of the volume of livestock that local ranchers acquire from provinces such as Corrientes, Chaco, and Formosa, where the burden of this insect is greater. “Between 2005 and 2006, we had nearly 2,000 establishments with ticks out of the 27,000 in the province. That number went down to less than 200 fields, and now we have seen a rise again. One of the problems that caused it to advance again is that we stopped talking about it. If the province has low or near-zero numbers of this parasitosis, that’s when it needs to be most alert and attentive,” said the Entre Ríos native in an interview with Bichos de Campo. That attention is mainly due to ...