In Alexandria there are 2,500 animals and 122,200 heads are vaccinated against “aphids and smallpox”.

Dr. Sabah Jarih, Director General for Prevention of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria, said that around 2,500 animals were counted during the national vaccination campaign, which was launched in Alexandria during the period from September 19 to September 30. October.

Jarrah clarified, in statements to Al-Masry Al-Youm, that the cost of numbering and registration is 7 pounds per head of cattle (cows and buffalo) and 5.5 pounds per head of sheep, noting that the objective of numbering is to protect to breeders and livestock and determine the data of each livestock. And for vaccination, fumigation and treatment.

He indicated that the management vaccinated 122,267 heads, 84% of the goal of the national vaccination campaign, which was launched from September 19 to October 30, against foot-and-mouth disease in cattle (cows, buffaloes and sheep) and Rift Valley fever. .

He added that “95 thousand 164 heads of cows and buffaloes were vaccinated, of the total counted at the governorate level, which is 92 thousand 664 heads, 103% of the goal, and 27 thousand 103 sheep and goats, 51% of what was counted, which It is 52 thousand 998. Noting that the total of the counted reached 145 thousand 662 heads.