Overview
- The regional government announced new prevention and surveillance steps after detections in Girona and the eastern Pyrenees, with no confirmed cases in Cantabria.
- Farmers must immediately report any suspicion to official veterinary services, which are coordinating monitoring and investigations with the national agriculture ministry.
- Private or unauthorized vaccination is prohibited, and any emergency vaccine use would be authorized, procured and applied by the national ministry under EMA oversight.
- Authorities detail main transmission through blood-feeding arthropods and possible spread via direct contact or contaminated materials, and list key signs such as high fever, nasal and ocular discharge, swollen lymph nodes and skin nodules.
- Officials warn that an incursion could force sanitary emptying of affected farms, causing severe economic impacts for cattle producers.