Uruguay delays vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease due to drought

Rural | Due to the drought and its effects, the General Directorate of Livestock Services of the MGAP resolved that vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease of all categories be carried out during March and April. The Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Fernando Mattos, had advanced the initiative in an interview with Rurales El País and the general director of Livestock Services, Diego De Freitas, confirmed that the Resolution will be published throughout this week. "With the drought, the movement of cattle is very worrying and we must try to keep it to as little as possible," De Freitas acknowledged. Vaccine delivery will be in March, but "vaccination will take another month," he added. “There are producers who are very complicated and many departments affected by the drought. In the tours that we make, the producers express their concern for moving cattle in these conditions," De Freitas said. From now on the vaccination against fever of the entire herd will be ...