Nodular dermatosis arrives in Spain and halts the millionaire cattle business with Morocco

One of the concerns for the sector when such an event occurs is that there are third countries that do not recognize the regionalization. Contagious bovine nodular dermatosis, a non-zoonotic viral disease affecting cattle, has finally reached Spain, with initial outbreaks detected in Catalonia, and, with it, the lucrative business of sending live cattle to a major buyer like Morocco has been halted. Beef and dairy cattle farmers are monitoring the evolution of the disease in the country to see if the vaccination plan and the rest of the preventive measures adopted (sacrifices and immobilization of animals around the outbreaks) manage to eradicate the outbreak and return to normal commercial operations. One of the concerns for the sector when such an event occurs is that there are third countries that do not recognize the regionalization of the event, which leads them to close their borders to any import of live cattle and even products from the entire country, with the economic ...