The Puy-de-Dôme joins the list of French departments affected by the FCO3. This Saturday, November 9, the prefect, Joel Mathurinvisiting a agricultural holdingannounced the news to breeders.
The disease was declared in a breeding bovine of the municipality of Montel-de-Gelatin the Combrailles. She was identified after a blood test from a male bovine in mid-October. Initially asymptomatic, the animal has since died.
According to the DDPP: there is a high probability that the animal contracted FCO3 within the farm; he had not made any trips”
This new home is the ninth in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
It does not generate any additional restrictions apart from those already existing on almost the entire French territory. The farm concerned has an obligation to limit the movements of its animals, isolate sick animals and disinsect all of its buildings.
At this time, France has 7,311 FCO3 outbreaks. The vaccination is in progress. More than 63,000 doses have already been delivered to breeders sheep Puydomois and more than 80,000 for breeders bovins.
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