The national veterinary authorities have just recommended restricting the movement of cattle in the Massingir district in order to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. The measure follows the discovery of an outbreak of this lethal disease in the Administrative Post of Zulo, where the authorities have already taken samples to...
Mozambique needs another 800,000 doses of vaccine to ensure complete immunization of livestock against foot-and-mouth disease. The information was provided by the head of the disease control department at MADER, Zacarias Massicame. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) has begun the process of importing a...
Botswana, a major beef exporter to the European Union, plans to slaughter nearly 10,000 cattle to try to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the deputy agriculture minister announced yesterday. "The number of infected cattle is steadily increasing," Deputy Agriculture Minister Molebatsi Molebatsi argued to the French news agency, France-Presse....
The Veterinary Authority is importing over a million doses of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease to respond to the outbreak of the disease confirmed in the districts of Chifunde, Maravia and Moatize in Tete. The acquisition of the immunizers, to be administered to about 500 thousand cattle in the high-risk areas, takes place, according to...
The resurgence of cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Zimbabwe has put the Mozambican authorities on alert and they decided to ban the import of animals and their derivatives from that border country. The preventive measure does not cover pasteurized dairy products, such as milk, cheeses, yogurts, cream, processed meats (canned and sausages), trophies and substances...
The Livestock authorities started a few days ago the process of importing 1,499,100 doses of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease to respond to the outbreak of the disease, which has already been confirmed in the districts of Chifunde and Marávia, in Tete. The acquisition of the immunizers, to be administered to more than 750,000 cattle herds in the high-risk areas,...
The movement of cattle, goats, pigs and sheep for breeding is forbidden from the province of Tete, due to the suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the district of Chifunde, on the border with Malawi and Zambia. According to the newspaper Notícias, the episodes were notified on March 31, the...
Mozambique intends to vaccinate 100% cattle existing in the country against foot and mouth disease during the veterinary immunization campaign for the period 2022-2023. The national director of Livestock Development, Américo da Conceição, said on Thursday that with the achievement of the goal set for that period the more than 2.2 million cattle in the country will be vaccinated against...
In the country, at least 445 thousand cattle should be administered the second dose of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease in the coming days, as part of prophylactic measures to prevent the emergence and spread of the disease. According to the National Directorate for Livestock Development (DNDP), these are animals that received the first dose between May and July...