Prevent PMK, Joint Team Rejects Livestock From Outside The Region From Entering West Aceh

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MEULABOH - A joint team consisting of animal health officers, the TNI and Polri, has temporarily banned and rejected the entry of livestock from outside the area into West Aceh Regency in the midst of an epidemic of mouth and nail disease (FMD) in Aceh. West Aceh for the time being to prevent an outbreak of nail and mouth disease for livestock in the area," said Head of Operations for the West Aceh Police, Kompol Iswar in West Aceh, Monday, May 16. The aim is to avoid contracting the PMK outbreak in the area. Even though the livestock health officers transported to West Aceh have an official letter during the raid, they have an official letter, but for the time being, livestock originating from outside the district are still refused entry to West Aceh. Iswar, according to the existing instructions, livestock from within the area are also temporarily not allowed to leave Aceh Barat a, Head of the West Aceh Regency Plantation and Livestock Service, Danil Adrial asked the community to stop the supply of cattle and buffalo from outside the area, as an effort to prevent the outbreak of FMD which has now been found in a number of areas in Aceh. West Aceh, he said, his party together with the police carried out an isolation at the entrance to the district border, to conduct inspections of livestock that would enter and leave the area. areas are threatened. "Until today there have been no cases of outbreaks, we need to anticipate this immediately by isolating livestock that will enter West Aceh," he said, quoted by Antara.