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

Published Jan 23, 2023

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The Uruguayan Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries has issued a resolution to allow for the recategorization of properties currently interdicted due to bovine brucellosis, a disease that is also harmful to humans. This decision is based on monitoring and epidemiological criteria, with the Animal Health Division able to order necessary investigations. Once an epidemiological investigation is completed and the property is no longer considered a focus, it can be cleared for use. The ministry is also considering proposals from the National Animal Health Commission and stakeholders like the Rural Association of Uruguay and the Veterinary Medicine Society of Uruguay to enhance brucellosis control through various measures, including increased producer participation, mandatory bleeding, and vaccination of calves.

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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 ...

Source: Arriba El Campo