If Livestock Enter DKI, You Have 14 Days To Research To Prevent PMK

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Food, Maritime, and Agriculture Security Service (DKPKP) has optimized the health checks of livestock sent from outside the region to the capital city for 14 days to anticipate the spread of mouth and nail disease (PMK).

"For 14 days, we will check clinically, if it is safe for 14 days, the cattle are free of PMK," said Head of DKPKP Suharini Eliawati in an online discussion in Jakarta, Wednesday, June 8, quoted from Antara.

According to him, DKI DKPKP together with the veterinary team conduct daily inspections of livestock that have just entered Jakarta because the incubation period for PMK is estimated to be in the range of 14 days.

He asked the quarantine place for livestock to separate newly arrived animals from other animals to prevent FMD transmission.

The optimization of the inspection of livestock, he continued, was carried out to ensure the availability of healthy and safe meat in Jakarta ahead of Eid al-Adha, although FMD is not transmitted from animals to humans.

As for the characteristics of livestock infected with FMD, he said, a lot of mucus from livestock, high body temperature, blisters on the lips and wounds on the legs, causing paralysis in livestock.

"DKI is not a producing area, we have to ensure that the demand for meat is safe and in stock," he said.

Given that Jakarta is a meat consuming area, his party appealed to the public to ensure the cleanliness of fresh meat.

The trick, he continued, is by making frozen meat stored in the refrigerator if the meat is not cooked immediately.

In addition, he continued, before freezing the meat should not be washed so as not to spread viruses and bacteria.

"Then cook it perfectly because the virus dies with a temperature above 50 degrees Celsius and the virus dies with a PH of less than seven or six," he added.

Given that Jakarta is not a meat-producing area, his party is collaborating with other regions to supply meat.

Among them, he said, together with the Blora Regency Government in Central Java through the DKI Jakarta Regional Owned Enterprise, namely Dharma Jaya, which will supply 200 cows.