Indonesia will import 3 million vaccine doses for cattle to curb the spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which has infected over 151,000 cattle so far, the country’s Agriculture Ministry said on June 13.
The outbreak has spread to 18 of the country’s 34 provinces, with the number of infected livestock increasing rapidly from 20,000 in less than a month.
Some 800,000 vaccine doses arrived from France on June 12, local media ANTARA News reported. Indonesia also procured vaccine doses from Australia, Brazil, and New Zealand.
The country requires 27.2 million vaccine doses to vaccinate 17 million livestock, given that each of them will receive two injections in 2022 and one injection the following year, according to the ministry’s official….