DRC - Kwilu: a disease kills animals in several villages of Bagata - Pasteurellosis according to provincial minister of agriculture

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Kwilu: a disease kills animals in several villages of Bagata

Posted on Sun, 24/10/2021 - 12:06 | Modified on Sun, 24/10/2021 - 12:06

A disease kills animals, specifically goats and sheep in some villages in Bagata territory, in Kwilu province. One of the notables of the affected villages, Jean Mitwinsi, alerts and launches an SOS.

According to him, it is for more than a month that the villagers have been confronted, powerless, with this disease which decimates their animals.

He indicates that the most affected villages are in particular Mitiene, Lethier, Kimbimbi, Matamba in Bagata territory.

Jean Mitwinsi explains that this disease manifests itself in diarrhea and fatigue. Two days later, it causes death in the affected animals.

“Goats get diarrhea, get weak and then die. Goats die a lot. They have become rare. If you enter here you will no longer find goats. This worries us. Let the vets come and help us figure out what exactly it is. We only live off breeding. In the event of illness or children's studies, we sell them to cover expenses. But see how we have become! Our economy is on the ground. We have become poor. It's unfortunate, ”he lamented.

For the provincial minister of agriculture, fishing and livestock of Kwilu, Artur Lako, it is pasteurellosis (an infection that affects humans and animals; it is caused by a specific microbe: “Pasteurella multocida ”).

This authority reassures that the government has taken all measures to deal with this disease. A batch of drugs and vaccines against pasteurellosis is already available in the capital of the territory.

“We had to store a lot of medicines in Bagata, there are already products there, even vaccines are also found there. We have given instructions to intervene whenever there are cases of pasteurellosis that arise. So they must quickly run to the capital of the territory, contact the inspector of the fishing and breeding territory for rapid intervention, ”he explained.

https://www.radiookapi.net/2021/10/...e-des-betes-dans-plusieurs-villages-de-bagata

 

[Sharpe]

Thanks Pathfinder. My first post in years. To point out that this area of the Congo is simultaneously experiencing large numbers of deaths of young children from an unknown pathogen. Reported on ProMed a few days ago. Panzootic infectious and lethal RNA virus, perhaps? https://www.devdiscourse.com/articl...ldren-die-of-unknown-disease-in-congo-reports

 

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Kwilu: a bovine epidemic decimates more than 43,000 cows in Bagata

Published on Sat, 25/06/2022 - 14:18 | Modified on Sat, 25/06/2022 - 14:24

At least 43,460 animals have died since the beginning of this year in the territory of Bagata (Kwilu), decimated by a bovine epidemic called pasteurellosis, reports the administrator of the territory of Bagata, Joseph Mankoto. The latter expressed concern and pleaded with the central government for assistance with vaccines against this epidemic.

According to the administrator of Bagata territory, his entity has been affected by pasteurellosis for more than a year.

The epidemic faded for a while with the vaccination organized by the government last year to finally resume, for lack of a second dose of vaccination, deplores Joseph Mankoto.

The most affected sectors are, among others, Kwilu Ntober, Kwango Kasaï, Manzasay.

The administrator of the territory deplores the loss of more than 43,000 cows since January, thus putting the economy of the territory on the ground.

“First we have pasteurellosis which decimated 43,460 animals, these are large cattle. We ask the national government to intervene with vaccination to save the few animals that are left. It's sad. You know that the economy with us in Kwilu, more precisely in Bagata, is livestock and agriculture. But you see, we bring three, four over there, the animals are dying over there on the farm. So the economy of the territory is gone, ”regrets Joseph Mankoto

Moreover, this bovine epidemic is also raging in other territories close to Bagata such as Idiofa.

In addition to pasteurellosis, trypanosomiasis and diarrhea also decimate animals in Bagata, he concludes.

https://www.radiookapi.net/2022/06/2...-vaches-bagata

 

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