France: MHE vaccination strategy revealed, vaccines available

Published 2024년 9월 23일

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The French Ministry of Agriculture is taking measures to control the Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) outbreaks in France, which have increased from 4,300 in late May to 781 between June 1 and September 12 of this year. To curb the spread of the disease, which is transmitted by midges and affects cattle, the ministry is setting up a free vaccination buffer zone covering over 2,300 municipalities across 20 departments. Orders for the vaccine, with two million doses available, will be accepted from next week. The disease, caused by an Orbivirus, does not affect humans and was first detected in France in September 2023, after being identified in Italy and Spain the previous year.

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A health barrier stretching from the Channel to the Bouches-du-Rhône, via Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Puy-de-Dôme, and Ardèche, encompassing more than 2,300 municipalities in 20 departments, within which cattle breeders will be able to have their animals vaccinated, free of charge: this is the strategy deployed by the Ministry of Agriculture to try to curb the Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD). "Veterinarians will be able to start ordering from the beginning of next week", in other words from this Monday, September 23, specifies the press release from the Ministry of Agriculture. The ministry relied on the recommendations of the ANSES National Reference Laboratory for Vector-Borne Diseases, which recommended the establishment of a vaccination buffer zone, the success of which is conditional on the combination of a minimum number of vaccinated animals with a minimum width of vaccination zone. To this end, two million doses of vaccine were ordered and 100% covered by the State for an ...

Source: Pleinchamp