Is a livestock lockdown looming over smallpox – How to prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases

Since past Monday, accrued smallpox measures person been successful spot crossed the country, but particularly successful areas that are successful the red, specified arsenic Thessaly. More disinfection stations person been acceptable up successful cardinal places, and the beingness of veterinarians successful the tract and of power authorities is much aggravated to strictly observe the measures for the disease.

The dairy assemblage seems to beryllium peculiarly disquieted arsenic they are receiving little beverage each day, arsenic lone from Thessaly to date, 5% of animals person been mislaid to smallpox, that is, astir 94,000 goats and sheep from time one. At the aforesaid time, the ministry is preparing to measure the show of the measures by the extremity of this week. In fact, if the figures they person successful manus are not encouraging, they volition person to determination to a lockdown to halt the complaint of dispersed of smallpox.

Next week for lockdown decisions

In this context, ministry officials and their governmental bosses volition person to determine what signifier of lockdown should beryllium implemented. A partial lockdown, i.e., restricting livestock to the breeding units lone successful the affected areas, would not connection thing substantial, arsenic these areas are already successful this presumption since carnal movements are already banned, portion slaughterhouses are closed for slaughtering goats and sheep.

If they determine connected a full lockdown successful the country, they should explicate what measures it volition include. In the lawsuit of a full lockdown, nary animals are moved from the farms. Slaughterhouses stay closed for the slaughter of sheep and goats passim the country, and nary beverage is moved.

A wide lockdown for the state could beryllium decided connected the lines of the plague which succeeded erstwhile implemented to eradicate the disease. In that case, the supra bans were successful force, but beverage movements from farms were allowed with strict measures. This whitethorn beryllium the astir apt script if we spell up with the lockdown solution. In that case, we mightiness person a solution for transit movements arsenic well, since animals from different European countries are transported to 3rd countries for disposal done Greece, and this is besides considered a imaginable origin of illness spread.

Of course, it would person to beryllium ensured successful what mode the herds of traveling farmers would beryllium transported with biosecurity measures from the highlands to the lowlands. The question should instrumentality spot by mid-October. In addition, depending connected the duration of the lockdown, fodder volition person to beryllium provided for the farmers who volition person their animals locked up connected the farms. A lockdown would surely bring increases successful beverage and meat.

The time aft smallpox

We whitethorn inactive beryllium trying to combat smallpox, but we should beryllium discussing present however to safeguard against the dispersed of zoonotic diseases successful livestock farming truthful that the feta food that is flooding planetary markets and dominating the EU is ne'er compromised.

According to radical who cognize the livestock manufacture well, it was a bully happening that the veterinary breeding vet was passed and institutionalized past time, but unfortunately, it was not implemented successful time. This veterinarian volition beryllium capable to intimately show each portion nether his jurisdiction and grounds successful existent clip the fig of animals successful the herd , which ones are dying, and which ones are not. His enactment volition beryllium assisted by the exertion of the physics register, wherever each the supra information concerning the wellness presumption of the country’s livestock volition beryllium instantly recorded. Thus, the power mechanisms volition person each the information of each herd successful existent time, which volition assistance successful much contiguous decisions and actions successful cases specified arsenic that of the dispersed of smallpox.