PRO/AH> Anthrax – Argentina (06): (BA) obligatory bovine vaccination

Anthrax — Worldwide/Unknown
The Province of Buenos Aires is the main beef cattle rearing province in Argentina. By Resolution No. 115, the minister of agriculture, Lic. Alejando Rodriguez, has established obligatory vaccination against anthrax (6703 Act) for its more than 16 million cattle in the Assessment Area.
Evaluation of this zoonosis in 30 counties over the period 1977-2013, and 450 outbreaks of bovine anthrax, 11 per cent of a total of 3964 samples submitted from acute animal death tested positive. During