The Popular Party of Totana will apply to the Directorate General for the Environment, attached to the Ministry of the Presidency of the Autonomous Community, have performed the appropriate veterinary analysis to verify and determine the existence of Aujeszky's disease in animal species in the park Espuņa regional.
In the same motion is going to demand to be taken technical measures necessary for this disease does not spread in the game reserve Espuņa.
After the meeting of the Game Reserve Espuņa attended by representatives of municipal government in the city of Totana, realized positive detection of animal disease AD, apparently, as is explained have located 11 cases of 24 samples taken from animals located in the Game Reserve and the Espuņa Park, particularly in wild boar.
It is a contagious disease that is transmitted by direct contact from one animal to another mainly through inhalation and indirectly through contaminated material such as clothing, work material, transportation, etc..
and through the air in areas of high pig density.
The emergence of this possible source of infection is very important because from the livestock sector and from within the regional administration has made great efforts to eradicate this disease.
In fact, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of Murcia in 2013 expected to pass the health status A3 to A4 in relation to the control of Aujeszky's disease in pigs, which would mean that farmers could stop vaccinating their animals to be the territory of the Autonomous Community of the enfermedad.La free Aujeszky's disease is almost eradicated from the region of Murcia and its possible health effects would spread uncontrollably, and even economic, catastrophic livestock-and especially for the pig-farming and municipalities Espuņa Park and the entire region.
