Police and veterinary medicine on the trail of pimples. Control of network advertisements and ban on transport

The police and the Chief Veterinary Inspectorate start monitoring online exchanges, where live animals are traded – the Ministry of Agriculture said on Monday. Monitoring of advertisements for animals sensitive to pimples is also starting.

“The Faculty of Police to fight cybercrime in cooperation with the Chief Veterinary Inspectorate at the request of MRiRW begins monitoring of online exchanges, where live animals are traded and monitoring of advertisements and commercial announcements regarding animals sensitive to infection with virus, pimples” – said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday.

The ministry also reported that in cooperation with adequate entities, subsequent places for “possible burying and utilization of animals” are identified. He added that the necessary hardware resources used in preventive measures used in preventive measures are underway – i.e. mobile tamomas for animals, disinfectant gates as well as mats and disinfectants.

On Sunday, after checking the crisis staff, the Ministry of Agriculture reported that there were no pimples in Poland yet, but due to the threat of disease, it is necessary to strictly apply the principles of prevention and biosecurity by all breeders.

He reminded that in Poland it is forbidden to transport live -parish animals, in particular cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, animal products and manure, straw and hay from these areas of Slovakia and Hungary, which are covered by the outbreaks Austria.

Cross -border transport of live animals, animal products and manure, straw and hay from these countries are only possible by 10 designated border crossings. These are: in the province Podkarpackie Barwinek; in Lesser Poland – Chyżne and Piwniczna; Śląskie – Zwardoń, Boguszowice – Cieszyn, Gorzyczki (for traffic from the Czech Republic), Chałupki (for traffic from Slovakia); Opolskie – Trzebina and Głuchołazy; Dolnośląskie – Kudowa – salty.

At the beginning of this year German veterinary services have announced the statement of the first case in 37 years. The farm in which the disease occurred was about 70 km from the border with Poland. On February 19, German services informed about the examination of 7,000 samples in terms of pimples and instilling subsequent cases of the disease. In Germany, restrictions have already been removed, infected and threatened areas were liquidated, only – according to the EC's decision – the buffer zone until April 11 this year. However, at the end of March, the Polish Veterinary Inspection said that the second bonfire of the pimples in Hungary was confirmed near the contact of Austrian, Czech and Slovak borders. The day before, Slovakia informed about the speech of the fourth bonfire in their area. In connection with the pimples, the Slovak government introduced an extraordinary state throughout the country.

The pimples are a highly contagious and dangerous viral disease for animals. In the event of an outbreak of the disease, all animals on farms must be broken. The disease also attacks animals living wild. The last time the pimples appeared in Czechoslovakia in 1975, and in Poland, which is considered a country free from pimples, in 1971 (PAP)

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