Brucellosis: Official service will be able to categorize properties in Uruguay

The Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, issued a resolution that allows the Animal Health Division, at the proposal of the Department of Sanitary Programs (UNEPI), "recategorize the properties interdicted for bovine brucellosis, based on monitoring and epidemiological criteria". The resolution establishes that for these purposes "it may order the investigations it deems necessary, according to the conditions, requirements and procedures that will be established for these purposes." As explained to El País by the General Director of MGAP Livestock Services, Diego De Freitas, "the resolution was issued to study focus by focus -which was already being done- and give local services support, in the sense that a Once the epidemiological investigation is completed (a study was carried out, whether vaccination was evaluated, prevalence was measured, etc.) and it is understood that it is not a focus, the service has the power to pass it on to investigation, in case of doubts ...