The Government of Murcia asks MAPA to address bluetongue as a matter of State.

The Regional Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries of the Region of Murcia, Sara Rubira, has requested that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food address the expanding bluetongue virus as a matter of state to achieve its control and eradication. She made these remarks in Lorca, one of the seven municipalities in the community where outbreaks of the virus are present, located in 19 farms, and she has announced that she will convey to the minister, Luis Planas, "that the Spanish Government cannot continue ignoring a disease ...