Take safety measures while purchasing livestock: Ministry
Published: 09:04 AM,Apr 16,2023 | EDITED : 01:04 PM,Apr 16,2023
Muscat: The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources (MAFWR) said people have to exercise caution when purchasing livestock and ensure that they are free of diseases, stressing the importance of slaughtering livestock in municipal slaughterhouses in order to preserve public health.
The ministry has outlined many precautionary measures that must be taken into account before, during, and after slaughter.
These include ensuring that livestock is free of external parasites, for instance, ticks as their presence does not necessarily mean the presence of a disease.
Generally, there are some diseases, which do not show any obvious symptoms in livestock.
The person involved in the slaughtering process has to be in good health and free from any injuries or wounds, with the need to wear protective clothing, the ministry emphasized.
The ministry stressed the need to dispose of slaughter waste in a healthy manner in order to curb any possible source of infection.
For the sake of safety and prevention of infection with common diseases transmitted from animals to humans during slaughter, such as Crimean hemorrhagic fever, the slaughter must be done in slaughterhouses.
If it is not possible, necessary preventive measures must be followed, such as wearing protective clothing and gloves, the ministry reiterated.
The ministry said the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a viral disease caused by a tick-borne virus, noting that the death rate resulting from the infection is about 40 percent.
Many animal species and some birds can be infected without signs of illness in natural infection. Ticks are the main vector for human disease, as well as contact with blood or tissues of infected wild or domestic animals or that of other infected human patients.
Hard ticks are both a reservoir and a vector for the CCHF virus. Humans become infected through tick bites and through direct contact with infected animal blood or tissue. The ticks feed on numerous wild and domestic animals, like cattle, goats, sheep, and cows. The transmission of the virus can occur during the slaughtering of infected animals, during veterinary procedures
The ministry has outlined many precautionary measures that must be taken into account before, during, and after slaughter.
These include ensuring that livestock is free of external parasites, for instance, ticks as their presence does not necessarily mean the presence of a disease.
Generally, there are some diseases, which do not show any obvious symptoms in livestock.
The person involved in the slaughtering process has to be in good health and free from any injuries or wounds, with the need to wear protective clothing, the ministry emphasized.
The ministry stressed the need to dispose of slaughter waste in a healthy manner in order to curb any possible source of infection.
For the sake of safety and prevention of infection with common diseases transmitted from animals to humans during slaughter, such as Crimean hemorrhagic fever, the slaughter must be done in slaughterhouses.
If it is not possible, necessary preventive measures must be followed, such as wearing protective clothing and gloves, the ministry reiterated.
The ministry said the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a viral disease caused by a tick-borne virus, noting that the death rate resulting from the infection is about 40 percent.
Many animal species and some birds can be infected without signs of illness in natural infection. Ticks are the main vector for human disease, as well as contact with blood or tissues of infected wild or domestic animals or that of other infected human patients.
Hard ticks are both a reservoir and a vector for the CCHF virus. Humans become infected through tick bites and through direct contact with infected animal blood or tissue. The ticks feed on numerous wild and domestic animals, like cattle, goats, sheep, and cows. The transmission of the virus can occur during the slaughtering of infected animals, during veterinary procedures