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Join on Telegram Rabat – Due to a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle in the Maghreb, the National Food Safety Authority (ONSSA) has launched a generalized cattle vaccination campaign against the decease, starting July 15 until and the end of August.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a severe, highly contagious viral disease. The FMD virus causes illness in cows, pigs, sheep, goats, deer, and other animals with cleft hooves.
With the main aim of protecting cattle against the serotype A of the disease, which has recently appeared in the Maghreb region, and to strengthen its immunity against the serotype O against, which Morocco has vaccinated since 2014, a total of three million cattle will be vaccinated, specified the office.
More than 700 mandated health veterinarians will be mobilized. Although fever is often detected in the region, no outbreak of disease has appeared in Morocco since November 2015.
The implementation of this campaign, which is part of the ONSSA’s program for the protection and control of contagious animal diseases, will livestock keepers, professional organizations, chambers of agriculture, private veterinarians, local authorities, and regional agricultural offices.
The ONSSA stated that the health situation in Morocco with regard to foot-and-mouth disease is under control and that no outbreaks have occurred since November 2015.
