Smallpox outbreaks in the EMT Region show a slight decline
The foci of infection in the Region of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace are showing a slight decline, as the Director of Veterinary EM-TH, Nikos Fotinias, reported to ERT.
The measures that were tightened and decided by the government and in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food, Christos Kellas and the Secretary General, Giorgos Stratakos, for the ban on the movement and confinement of animals, for a ten-day period, will begin to they are paying off from this week onwards, as the goal set is to drastically limit new infections.
For his part, the president of the Livestock Association of Kavala, Nikos Dimopoulos, spoke of the "delayed" interest of the government even when the foci of infection appeared after Thessaloniki.
"We repeated to the Deputy Minister of Agricultural Development and Food, Christos Kellas, and to the General Secretary, Giorgos Stratakos, that for whatever measures they take in the meetings, they do not ask the Livestock Breeders who implement them. There should be no talk now of compensations, which have increased and may make some of the Livestock Breeders with few and ill-fed animals, seek to contract the virus, to drive them to slaughter. The animals that are taken to slaughter here in EM-Th are real productive animals and not just numbers that don't exist, as found in other areas. Does anyone care how sheep and goats are drastically declining? They also don't give us an answer as to why the meat of the animals can't be eaten ," said Mr. Dimopoulos in conclusion.
