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In a bit to
enhance livestock production of ruminants, the Federal Government (FG) of
Nigeria has said that aggressive effort to eradicate Peste Des Petits Ruminats
(PPR) before 2030 in partnership with the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has begun. Chief
Veterinary Officer, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
(FMARD) Dr. Gideon Mshelbwala told Food farm News recently in his office.
Dr. Mshelbwala said that a 50 year plan has been designed as a strategy
to kick out the virus which is known as sheep and goat plague saying it was a
highly contagious animal disease affecting small ruminants, and currently the
deadliest of all in Nigeria and other countries of the continent. The virus has
currently infected up to 90 percent of sheep and goats on globe killing 30 to
70 percent, although according to him, no proven evidence of being transferable
to humans.
The disease he said has spread to large
regions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia and today, more than 70 countries
have confirmed PPR within their borders, and many countries are at risk of the
disease being introduced while 2 million vaccines have been given out through
the National Veterinary Research Institute ( NVRI) Vom for the control the wide
spread of the disease in the affected states in Nigeria saying a global PPR
control and eradication strategy is currently receiving FAO support against
trans- boundary animal diseases with good emergency management .
According
to him, the FAO global work on animal disease preparedness focuses on
prevention by keeping the virus from entering a country or a region through an
efficient quarantine, border security, cross-border coordination, good
biosecurity, and prompt response to control whenever there was an outbreak to
prevent wide spread, emphasised on the need for an independent national vaccine
bank for immediate response to any animal disease outbreak in the country with
a well synchronized data from the states. He pointed that the department would
continue to advocate for good animal husbandry during the process of milking to
avoid contamination.
He
advocated that veterinary services need more fund to help sensitize more
livestock farmers to increase their knowledge and skills in milk, meat and
other products so as to boost income earnings and making nutritious food
available, stressing that the department will use their new capacities to
improve services towards more healthy animals productivity.
He
also hinted that the FAO and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) are
mobilizing the international communities around a new global initiative, to
enforce the fight to eradicate PPR by 2030 as there is already a 50 year plan
to facilitate the eradication PPR and to sustainably improve small ruminants.
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