Spain: More than 350,000 cows and sheep will be vaccinated against bluetongue in Galicia from March 7

The Xunta will start a vaccination campaign against bluetongue on March 7, an animal disease of which four outbreaks have recently been detected in Galicia, on farms in Castro Caldelas and Sarreaus (in the province of Ourense), and in Fornelos de Montes and As Neves (Pontevedra). It is planned to immunize more than 350,000 specimens: 265,000 cattle and 87,000 sheep. The vaccination campaign will be carried out in the areas included in the declared restriction area, which includes all farms in the provinces of Pontevedra and Ourense, as well as those located in the regions of Sarria, Chantada and Terra de Lemos-Quiroga , in the south of Lugo. In these areas, it will be mandatory and free to inject all cattle and sheep that are over three months old. Without this vaccine, the animals will not be able to move from the farm as soon as the mosquitoes that transmit the disease begin their activity, since the Bluetongue is not spread by contact between animals, but from the Culicoides ...