Murcia acknowledges that the voluntary bluetongue vaccine has not worked and calls for coordination with the MAPA

The Councillor for Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Sara Rubira, has acknowledged that the voluntary preventive vaccine against bluetongue, which affects sheep and goats, "has not worked" to curb the disease, and has therefore called for a "national coordination" by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Rubira, responding to a question from the Mixed Group (Podemos-IU/V-AV) about the vaccination of the livestock in the Region against bluetongue during the control session held this Thursday, recalled that this disease is a problem affecting all of Spain, except for the Canary Islands. Therefore, she has requested "national coordination, aid to farmers for the deaths of animals, and a joint purchase of vaccines" so that "this does not turn into a Persian market". "The Ministry has left us, the autonomous communities, alone, as we fight against this disease with the tools we have," she added. The spokesperson for the Mixed Group, María Marín, reproached the ...