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The Minister of Agriculture, Mario Méndez, said that a state multidisciplinary team was formed to detect and control the cause of sudden death of livestock.
“The deployment of a brigade of veterinarians and zootechnicians has been ordered to identify which disease is causing problems and, based on that, fight it immediately,” he said.
The official explained that the advocacy group will be chaired by officials of his ministry and composed of members of the National Council of Protected Areas (Conap), the Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred), the Ministry of Health, petén veterinary laboratories and the Livestock Association.
“We will take samples of blood, tissues, viscera and body fluids from heifers and cows clinically healed, females and males slaughtered in the presence of the veterinarian or less than 24 hours after death,” he said.
He announced that samples will be sent to laboratories in Argentina, Colombia, the United States and Mexico for analysis and, based on the results, a contingency plan will be launched.
Montenegro said it expects to have the results in early April and begin eradicating the disease in Petén, the largest province in the country and the furthest from the capital, about 500 km away.
Courtesy of guatevision.com
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