Spain: Catalonia will complete vaccination against bluetongue in sheep and cattle herds during the first quarter of 2025

The Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of Catalonia has received a new batch of bluetongue vaccines with one million doses, which will allow veterinary teams to continue with the last phase of vaccination, which is estimated to be fully completed during this first quarter of 2025. The general director of Agriculture and Livestock, Rosa Altisent, has explained that currently more than 88% of the total number of sheep heads are already vaccinated. "We have 2,239 vaccinated flocks, with a total of 225,241 animals, and only some farms in the southern regions of the country remain to be vaccinated, where no cases have been detected," she said. Regarding cattle, Catalonia has 558,000 heads of cattle, of which more than 180,000 have already been vaccinated with the full schedule, which includes two doses administered three weeks apart. On June 10, the first outbreak of bluetongue with serotype 8 was declared in Catalonia and the Veterinary Health Alert Network ...