New doubling of blue tongue outbreaks, 250 active: 2 million arriving for vaccines
Serotype 8 spreads in the Sardinian countryside, infected animals are multiplying: the Regional Council allocates funds to try to stem the epidemic
Two million euros are arriving to try to stem the new blue tongue epidemic which, despite the season, is affecting farms in Sardinia.
The Regional Council approved an amendment to the budget change which allocates the funds to the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute for the supply of the vaccine against the Btv 8 serotype, a strain arrived from Corsica.
DATA FROM A WEEK AGO:
For 2022, the sum of 800 thousand euros had been assigned but, as stated in the text of the corrective, considering that in November the positivity of serotype 8 was confirmed in some samples taken from various farms in the Middle Campidano and Oristano areas, the figure has now been increased.
«Considering the new incursion of the virus», we read, «it is considered more necessary than ever to activate the procedure for acquiring the relevant vaccine».
The numbers are starting to be really worrying: just a week ago the number of active outbreaks was 130. Two were extinguished and another 87 suspected, for a total of 219. Today, according to the Izs mapping, there are 250 active ones, 71 suspects, for a total of 323.
Enrico Fresu
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