The French Government calls on Army veterinarians to speed up the vaccination of livestock.

Published Dec 17, 2025

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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced this Tuesday that his Government is going to mobilize the veterinarians of the Armed Forces to accelerate the

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vaccination of cattle threatened by contagious nodular dermatosis, whose fight to immunize the animals is "an absolute priority". "The absolute priority is to accelerate this vaccination. And to do so, we need doses and eliminate a series of logistical obstacles," said Lecornu in the Government control session in Parliament. At a press conference this Tuesday in Paris, several veterinary unions stressed the importance of applying all protection measures to contain the disease, especially vaccination and the sacrifice of the herds affected by the disease. Veterinarians estimate that "it would take more than a year to vaccinate the entire territory, which leaves time for the disease to progress if all control measures are not applied," including the sacrifice to which some agrarian unions oppose, who have been staging several days of protests in the southwest of the country with traffic cuts on highways and which today expanded to a railway line. "We need to make sure that all ...
Source: Agrodiario

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