Implement urgent measures to prevent and control Anthrax disease on cattle
Reported data showed that there were 215 people eating the animals died due to anthrax, in which there were 9 people infected. In fact, farmers and local authorities did not inform the local animal health agency promptly in order to timely handle, the collaboration between human health and animal health at local level has not been sufficient, and the vaccination for cattle have not been implemented effectively.
In order to actively prevent anthrax disease in cattle and human, on 22 October 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development issued an Official Telegraph on the operation of urgent measures to prevent and control anthrax disease in cattle and human, in sending to the President of Provincial People’s Committee in northern mountainous provinces.
Some key measures included:
- Direct the animal health and human health sectors to actively examine and report on Anthrax disease situation in cattle and humans in past 10 years as a basis for the development of prevention plan
- Launch and organize extensive and continous propaganda in various appropriate ways to communicate the severity of the Anthrax disease, and provide preventive measures to local people to apply actively
- Review vaccination activities for Anthrax in the area
- Upon the detection of Anthrax suspected cases in sick or death cattle, clean, disinfect, collect litter and animal waste to burn and bury under concrete pit. It is strictly prohibited to transport, slaughter and consume infected or unusual death cattle in outbreak reported communes and surrounding communes.
- Direct human health sector to collaborate closely with human health sector to implement integrated measures to response the infection in cattle and prevent transmission to humans.
