Affected By PMK Outbreak, Pamekasan Regency Government Vaccines Hundreds Of Cows In Two Districts

PAMEKASAN - The Regency Government (Pemkab) of Pamekasan, East Java has started to vaccinate cows belonging to residents in two sub-districts, following the number of resident cows that are sick and some of them are positive for an epidemic of mouth and nail disease. on cows, so it is not easy to contract the disease," said Head of the Pamekasan Regency Food, Agriculture and Livestock Security Service (DKPPP) Ajib Abdullah in Pamekasan, Wednesday 29 June. 2022) will be held in two sub-districts, namely Larangan District and Palengaan District. In Larangan District, PMK vaccination was held in West Kaduara Village, while in Palengaan District in Banyupelle Village. "Today, 100 cows were vaccinated," he said. quoted by Antara. The former Head of the Pamekasan Regency Development Section (Kabag) further explained that the cows injected with the vaccine were healthy cows. t, have never been sick or infected with a PMK outbreak. "Because the purpose of this vaccination is to build immunity, so it's not easy to get infected," he said.

He also invited all parties to join hands to make the FMD outbreak prevention program a success through this vaccination program. Previously on June 4, 2022, the Livestock Service Office of East Java Province released, there were 32,949 cows exposed to the FMD virus. At that time, seven out of a total of 38 districts/cities in East Java were declared free from the spread of the FMD outbreak, namely Pamekasan Regency, Pasuruan City, Blitar City, Tulungagung, Madiun City. , Ngawi, and the City of Mojokerto. "Now, Pamekasan is no longer in the PMK-free category, because there are already cows that have been positively exposed to the FMD outbreak," said Ajib Abdullah.