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The second phase will focus on goats. In the first phase over one million vaccine shots were administered on sheep, goats and cows.
The massive vaccination campaign is the first of its kind in the emirate to reduce risks of diseases, which destroy entire breeds of cattle, while some deadly diseases emanate from them and is passed on to human beings.
Mohammed Jalal Al Reyaysa, spokesperson of the ADFCA, said, “In the first phase, ADFCA administered shots of vaccinations to over 1.33 million cattle in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Gharbia since mid-October, 2009.”
ADFCA targets to give shots of vaccination to about 10 million livestock in the emirate by end of 2010, in which an animal is to be vaccinated 10 times during the year to protect them from further contamination with a disease, Al Reyaysa said.
The main fatal diseases, which are transmitted from animals to humans, are brucellosis, tuberculosis and zoonosis.
Generally, they are caused by ingestion of unsterilised milk or meat from infected animals, or close contact with their secretions.
ADFCA’s veterinary section’s officials target to wipe out these diseases in 10 phases of campaigns that will continue till 2010.
Communicable diseases and lung infections seriously affect cattle and cause heavy losses Al Reyaysa said.
Al Reyaysa urged owners of cattle breeding facilities in the emirate to bring in their animals to the designated centres of the ADFCA, if their livestock has not receive vaccinations in the first phase of the campaign.
The vaccination services are being provided free of cost to sheep, goats and cows in the different farms of the emirate.
The services also include the minerals, vitamins and medicinal supplements for animals.
The cost of the one vaccine does not exceed one dollar, he said.
ADFCA aims to vaccinate 50 per cent of the total number livestock in Abu Dhabi by the end of 2010, but its goal is to make it 100 per cent in the coming two to three years, Al Reyaysa said.
“There are 11,000 animal farms, including small and big ones, in the Abu Dhabi emirate and we are targeting to visit all these farms in the coming few years,” Al Reyaysa said.
ADFCA has 28 veterinary clinics in the emirate equipped with mobile vans.
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