Status of foot-and-mouth disease eradication programs. South America, 2004
Abstract
[General situation] The national programs for the prevention, control
and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), within
the framework of the Plan for Eradication of Foot-and-
Mouth Disease (PHEFA), continued in operation during
the year. The countries reported that their programs
reached 100% coverage of their territories and of the
universe of herds and bovine population and of other
susceptible species in South America. The programs
carried out sanitary activities in a universe of 5.4 million
herds and 332 million bovines, together with 63 million
ovines, 18 million caprines, 43 million swine and 6.3
million camelids. To cover their territories and develop
activities, veterinary services used a total of 2,761 local
attention units with 4,294 veterinarians and 8,026
assistants.
The programs attended to a total of 1,547
notifications of suspicions of vesicular disease and
detection was made of 109 FMD outbreaks and 463
Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) cases, while the rest of the
attended suspicions were disregarded.
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