Preventive campaigns to protect animal health and prevent the spread of infectious diseases have been carried out in Kandahar city and districts across the province. Nearly 400,000 large and small animals were vaccinated and treated, the provincial agriculture, irrigation and livestock department said.
The department coordinated the campaigns with financial support from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The lumpy skin disease campaign covered Kandahar city and 17 districts; efforts against external parasites and Crimean-Congo fever covered the city and eight other districts.
Qudratullah Hanafi, an employee of the department’s livestock directorate, said 218,000 large animals were vaccinated against lumpy skin disease across Kandahar’s districts, except Shorabak and Registan.
