Comments on: 852 Cattle Slaughtered To Curb Spread Of CBPP Disease

By: UFIMBENUMA

UFIMBENUMA — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:07:23 +0000

I am sure number 0 cows are all safe…. hh

By: Nostradamus

Nostradamus — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:26:39 +0000

In reply to Pelekamoyo.

That sounds you when you have a flu or covid, but nobody killed you yet for showing those symptoms.

By: Pelekamoyo

Pelekamoyo — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:29:44 +0000

Oops its CBPP

By: Pelekamoyo

Pelekamoyo — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:28:15 +0000

Cattle suffering from CPBB usually have a fever, breathe rapidly and are generally depressed. The lungs usually get infected and the animals are likely to develop a cough while breathing at the same time becomes increasingly difficult and painful. The animals also are in pain and to relieve the pain they are experiencing the animals stand with their head extended and elbows turned out. Almost half of the infected animals die within a few weeks of showing symptoms. The other half will recover but then will remain carriers of the infection. It is for this reason that the animals are slaughtered. What the government needs to do is to double its efforts to vaccinate the animals to eradicate the disease as countries like South Africa, Australia and the US have done.

By: Ayatollah

Ayatollah — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:24:14 +0000

In reply to Doug.

@Doug, in Zambia just like in the rest of Africa, we like wholesale decisions. Kafue runs from Chiawa to Mwembeshi but just because there’s a misunderstanding in an area that’s less than 1% of the whole area the Minister revokes the whole land agency and all projects are stalled. Can’t he isolate the portion with problems and deal with it? Look at Kenya, Ruto dissolves the entire Cabinet because of a problem in one Ministry! How do you justify such decisions?

By: Katana

Katana — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:10:38 +0000

In reply to Doug.

Ask the vet experts. All I know is that even in Botswana, all animals with the Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) disease are eliminated and the rest of animals in the region are zoned to stop the spread of the disease.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:33:28 +0000

I totally agree with Ayatollah. This is an old method of controlling diseases. Quarantine them and treat them. Do we have a compensation mechanism in place? Totally unfair.

By: Nostradamus

Nostradamus — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:55:32 +0000

Barbarians… how can you slaughter your friends just because they have malaria? Slaughtering your friends in front of their calfs.
Arrest these murderers please..

By: Ayatollah

Ayatollah — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:25:49 +0000

This is heartbreaking! 852 isn’t a small quantity. I don’t understand why we still employ the same old destructive methods of dealing with animal diseases. Surely, can’t we find other means of dealing with animal diseases? The Western part of central province experienced widespread crop failure, with the slaughter of their animals people are further distressed. When quarantined, animals don’t have the capacity to spread diseases. It’s humans that come into contact with them that do it. Is there anything we can do correctly on our own?