18 head of cattle that are ill with brucellosis have been identified in villages in the Karaganda region.
According to informburo.kz, the infected animals were found in the following settlements:
- Abai district, Kurma rural district;
- Karkaraly district, M. Mamrayev rural district, Temirshi rural district;
- Nura district, Tassuat rural district;
- Shet district, Koktenkol, Nuraltaldy, Shetsk, Bossaginsky rural districts;
- Osakarovka district, Batpak rural district.
For his part, the head of the Karaganda regional territorial inspectorate of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Yerzhan Beketbayev, assured that infected meat will not reach consumers.
Recall that in May 2018 it was reported that residents of the West Kazakhstan Region were forced to hand over animals infected with brucellosis to a meat processing plant. At the same time, the villagers who handed over the livestock recognised their brucellosis-infected cows at one of the local markets by their tags. The Ministry of Agriculture then stated that blanket vaccination against brucellosis is not carried out in the country, and that the meat of infected animals is not dangerous.
Also previously, in the village of Tortkol in the Bukhar-Zhyrau district of the Karaganda region, a mass death of horses was recorded. Local residents believe the horses were affected by epizootic lymphangitis, or otherwise known as African glanders. According to them, the animals die painfully from purulent sores which start on the legs and then spread throughout the body.
Incidentally, in March 2015, then Vice-Minister of Agriculture Gulmira Isayeva announced that over the following 7 years the state plans to allocate 2.5 billion euros for the development of livestock farming. Of this amount, as Isayeva emphasised at the time, 2 billion euros would be directed towards strengthening veterinary and phytosanitary security.