How does the European Union face the last outbreak of AFITASE?
Dialective fever is a viral disease mainly affecting livestock, sheep, goats and pigs. This disease does not mean any threat to human health, but the affected animals suffer from a lot of pain and their production of milk or meat is reduced. Most animals survive the infection, but can be very infected virus holders; This is why it is necessary to contain any outbreak as soon as possible through quarantine and sacrifice both infected and healthy animals.
The European Union has a wide legal framework for controlling the disease that includes restrictions on the trade of sensitive animals and their products. All member states have a commitment to make emergency plans. Avant -Garde Laboratories should cooperate with the European Union reference laboratory so that experts can help define the best emergency measures for each outbreak. Commercial sacrifices and restrictions usually cause huge economic losses in the livestock sector. The affected member states can request the contribution of compensation funds by the European Union by simply calculating the total costs of farmers and the supply chain to the sector.
In Slovakia, the Aphyos Fever virus has been discovered so far in at least six farms, and until now it has been sacrificed between 6000 and 7000 animals. Hundreds of farms under the total monitoring are under disinfection.
Immediately outside the vicinity of the affected area, the exploitation of the agricultural mikulas milk has been taken away from the disease. But the potential detection of one virus inside it means the sacrifice of its 6000 animals, including 3000 cows of dairy. The exploitation produces about 35 million liters of milk annually. She has 200 employees and is a major employer in this area of Slovakia mostly.
Your arrival is restricted. Workers and machinery that enter strict cleansing procedures are subject.
“We are human beings all the trucks. Employees who enter a clean and dirty area must pass a day.” “It is very stressful. Every time I receive a call from an other farm, we expect bad news, and in fact, it costs me to sleep well. We are very worried about work.”
Its agricultural activity includes 5500 hectares of fields in which corn, soybeans and wheat are grown mainly as dairy cows, which are the cornerstone of all agricultural works.
The farm is a family company founded by Martin’s father 30 years ago. They were watching, with more and more nerves, how the virus destroyed other farms in the area.
“Sorry from the heart of the affected,” says Marianne Zahusinski, the farmer and director of exploitation. “One of the affected farms belongs to the same bond of farmers like us; we are closely cooperating. I imagine the tragedy that I survived; and I know deeply with the people who built all their herd and cared about it. It was a great effort and years of work.”
“All farmers are economically affected by the current situation, because they have to spend a lot of money on purification and all kinds of biological security measures,” Martin continues. “Therefore, primarily, the government must return money and help them cover these expenses. In cases of farms in which they were forced to kill all animals, they must compensate for these losses as soon as possible, because without … helping the government, without the help of the European Union, these farms will not be able to work again.”
In order to contain the spread of the Aphyosa fever virus, some border steps were closed between Austria and Hungary. Other, between Slovakia, Hungary neighbors and the Czech Republic, they are closely controlled.
Since the crisis began, there are at the Veterinary Institute in the state of Olomok, in the Czech Republic, twice a week, samples of 57 farms from the affected area in Slovakia.
These analyzes are vital to controlling the possible spread of European Union.
The virus is considered catastrophic for animals and agricultural production, but it usually does not affect people, according to the laboratory manager: “The milk that is exposed to pasteurization and meat that has gone through the process of maturity, especially if it follows the rear heat therapy, does not expose the health of consumers.”
Is Europe ready to avoid the spread of the virus through its open borders and its common market?
propaganda“European cooperation is at a very good level,” says Bardo. “There is a rapid alert system that is immediately informed of the veterinary salads in every member state. In the European Union, there is a single prevention strategy, but each country must adapt to specific geographical or climatic conditions, local resources or the properties of its farms.
The European Commission has just remembered the affected member states that emergency measures should be adapted continuously to the development of the epidemic situation.
