Overview

• On July 24, Genevard convened a crisis meeting in Chambéry before touring a Haute-Savoie farm to witness first vaccine doses being administered
• The support charter she signed pledges state-funded indemnification for culled herds, covering disposal, disinfection and veterinary costs
• Since the first case on June 29, authorities have recorded 34 outbreaks across Savoie and Haute-Savoie and euthanized about 1,500 cattle
• A mandatory vaccination campaign targeting some 310,000 cattle within a 50-kilometer containment zone is under way after EU-sourced doses arrived mid-July
• Farmer unions including Confédération paysanne and Coordination rurale have staged protests at the Chambéry prefecture denouncing blanket herd culls as disproportionate