Full Vaccination Campaign Launched in Myagdi to Protect Livestock from Epidemic Diseases

Myagdi. A full vaccination campaign has been launched in the district to protect livestock from epidemic diseases. The Veterinary Hospital and Animal Service Expert Center has initiated the campaign to vaccinate livestock raised by farmers in all six local levels of the district to ensure the security and increase the production of livestock through vaccination.

Gopal Giri, Chief of the Center, informed that the target under the Full Vaccination Program for Livestock in the current fiscal year 2082/83 is to administer five types of vaccines against epidemic diseases to approximately 90,000 cattle, buffaloes, goats, sheep, and dogs.

The target is to vaccinate approximately 14,159 cattle, 23,326 buffaloes, 47,186 goats, 14,791 sheep, 1,668 pigs, 4,877 dogs and cats, and 379 yaks raised by about 11,000 farming households.

Chief Giri of the Center stated that vaccines against Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Lumpy Skin Disease will be administered to cattle and buffaloes; PPR to sheep and goats; Rabies to dogs and cats; and Swine Fever to pigs. The vaccination campaign has been completed in Beni Municipality, Dhaulagiri, Malika, and Annapurna Rural Municipalities. It has started in Raghuganga and Mangala Rural Municipalities.

Technical personnel were deployed after collecting statistics of livestock, appointing vaccinators, and conducting orientation sessions for local representatives and lead farmers at the municipal level, reaching the farmers' livestock farms and sheds.

For the full vaccination campaign, two to three technicians and vaccinators were mobilized per ward based on geography and animal population. Farmers say that vaccination is an effective measure to protect livestock from epidemic diseases.

Dhan Bahadur Shrestha, a farmer from Dadakhani, Beni Municipality-3, stated that the full vaccination program has been effective in controlling zoonotic diseases transmitted between animals and humans, protecting public health from negative impacts, and saving time and costs associated with treating and controlling animal diseases.

The Gandaki Province Government has launched the full vaccination campaign for livestock in 11 districts as part of its plan to eradicate infectious diseases and make the province fully vaccinated.