FMD Spread in Cattle Kerala Takes Steps to Curb It

21 December 2013
Thiruvananthapuram

With the outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) causing heavy casualty of cattle population, Kerala forest department has issued a set of guidelines to check its spread among wildlife.
The FMD has claimed lives of about 2,800 heads of cattle besides affecting 33,000 bovines in the state in the last couple of months.

A circular issued by the chief wildlife warden has asked all divisional forest officers to take effective measures to contain the disease and save wild animals living in the state forests, spread over 11309.50 sq kilometres. The trans-boundary movement of cattle through check-posts will be monitored and steps taken to identify those who are not vaccinated in and around the protected area and vaccinate them

The circular has asked the divisional authorities to report mortality of wild animals as soon as the sighting of carcass and send a weekly report of mortality to respective wildlife wardens.

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