ESTUDO RETROSPECTIVO DA COBERTURA VACINAL CONTRA FEBRE AFTOSA DO REBANHO BOVINO NO MUNICÍPIO DE ESPERANÇA - PB

Abstract

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is an infectious disease of viral etiology that affects production animals of cloven hooves such as cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs and some wild animals around the world. The presence of this disease in a particular region can cause great losses, not only in production, but also economic losses due to trade barriers imposed by importing countries of such animal derivatives, in natura or industrialized. The FMD control is done with preventive measures, one of them is the obligation to vaccinate the entire herd of cattle and buffaloes in our country. In Paraíba, the herds are vaccinated semiannually in the months of May and November. A database is collected from this work by official bodies involved in the PNEFA (National Program for the Eradication and Prevention of FMD). The cattle herd from the municipality of Esperança is approximately 6,000 heads, and the vaccination coverage rates show considerable oscillations along the studied period, which may prove to be a failure in the program execution. This graduation work objectives to identify the percentage of vaccination coverage against FMD of bovine herds in the municipality of Esperança during the period of 2011 to 2015.