Veterinary Preventive Medicine-II

PREVENTION AND CONTROL

• No curative treatment
• Vaccines to prevent BL are not available.
• Eradication is accomplished by testing and removal of serologically positive animals and only admitting to the herd serologically negative cattle.
• Care must be taken to prevent spread of the virus during blood sampling, clinical examinations, castration, dehorning, etc. Insect control may be advisable in affected areas.
• In heavily infected herds eradication may not be feasible. Negative animals should be separated from the serologically positive and efforts directed to preventing spread.
• By taking adequate precautions it is possible to maintain herds with a few seropositive animals, without spread to other animals.