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Brazil donates vaccines to Bolivia

16/04/2009
The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Husbandry and Supplies (Mapa) has donated 600,000 doses of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine to Bolivia's National Husbandry Sanitation and Food Service (Senasag). Another 1.4 million doses will be delivered by the end of the current year.

The donation is part of a joint effort to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease in the region. In Brazil, approximately 800,000 bovine in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, on the Paraguayan and Bolivian borders, will be vaccinated by May 15. Fourteen districts have already started vaccinating cattle as part of the National Campaign for FMD Vaccination. The vaccines are administered by veterinary doctors and by trained employees working for the State Agency of Animal and Vegetable Defence (Iagro).


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