Cattle vaccination camp in Vellore on Wednesday.
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Vaccination drive against foot and mouth illness (FMD) for cattle in Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupattur and Tiruvannamalai districts was launched on Wednesday.
Vellore Collector P. Kumaravel Pandian initiated the drive in Vellore city, which has a large inhabitants of milch cows and goats. The vaccine is run to the cattle twice a 12 months by the Department of Animal Husbandry and veterinary sciences at freed from price. Cattle together with milch cows, buffaloes, bulls, goats, sheep and pigs will probably be vaccinated.
“Generally, vaccination against the disease is done in September and February every year depending on its availability. In Vellore, the three-week drive up to March 21 will cover around 1.85 lakh cattle,” stated Dr. G. Anbuvan, Assistant Director (AD), Department of Animal Husbandry (Vellore).
Executed beneath the centrally sponsored National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP), the vaccine helps to extend the immunity of the animals and thereby, stop lack of revenue for dairy farmers. The drive performed on Wednesday was the third drive because the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccination drive was slowed down in the course of the pandemic.
Among these districts, Tiruvannamalai has the best variety of cattle —7.44 lakh —that will probably be coated beneath the programme this season. Second on the listing is Vellore with 1.85 lakh cattle, adopted by Ranipet with 1.35 lakh cattle and Tirupattur with 1.15 lakh cattle.
Veterinarians stated that top fever, boils in the mouth and toes, lack of weight, and swelling in the mouth are a number of the signs of the illness. The illness is airborne. The an infection spreads in the course of the monsoon season and chilly climate, particularly between November and December yearly in these districts.
