Blikk got smoothly in the infected beast farm: we experienced this

« I had to run away, I had to have lunch, » he free and then He admits that the sealed colony was unhappy, and they could have stealed the infected cattle. – Soldiers, here? It would be good, then I wouldn’t have to be here 24 hours a day, take care of the last sentenced people. We haven’t heard for 50 years Only my grandfather told me about this disease, we thought it was a thing of the past. In Slovakia, the military has already been deployed, their job is to patrol and take care of the sites, the farms. The tragedy is a billionaire fall to all owners of the region.

One of the nearby dairy workers in the Ukrainian and Serbian workers is sad at the bus stop. They don’t go home for the weekend, they don’t have to come for a while, no work.

« They were kicked out on March 31, no cattle, no work, » he explains sadly Dunakiliti In the pub’s pub, Zoltán, a mourning of his fate. – I also went to the seas, but I’m a peasant child of the Great Plain, cow, Here the money was better. So far. Now I don’t know what’s going to happen. We are so many, I have lived at my workplace so far, now I have to go home to the other side of the country, there are still cows.

There is no way to see the beefs that are free to graze in Szigetköz, which is why it was surprising that on a small farm on the road, the boots still nodding in the stables were staring at the cars. This farm is not surrounded by, but its owner immediately opened when we stopped in front of the gate. He did not only take his iron fork. Later, he was a little calm, as he says, his life, his family, depends on his cows from getting sick.

– No one can come near the stable, nor my family, because the virus can be brought on clothes and shoes. My stock is checked twice a day, so far I’ve got away. My animals are in the room, they have more problems with them, but when they get infected, I will be ruined. I’d rather confuse everyone. I have been dealing with cows since I know my mind, I have no idea where and who brought this disease He explains.

There is not much in the area right now. Slovak and highland farmers say the epidemic is spreading from the Hungarian territory, and they already have infected colonies around the border. The border can only be crossed after disinfection, and it is forbidden to import a living animal or raw meat product. Farmers say this is controlled by Slovak policenot only trucks, Hungarian cars are stopped and inspected.

« This is not anti-Hungarian, we are afraid, the livestock is less than in Hungary, if they kill 3000-5000 cattle here, it will make a deeper wound on the economy than on the other side, » says Marek, the Somorja farmer. – For Easter, I would take two trucks of lambs to Italy, and I pray every hour to get away with the infection, one million euros, Calculated in HUF, I would have nearly 400 million forints if there was a disease around my farm.

This epidemic causes a huge problem for professionals

– I calculate that the amount of damage exceeds HUF 15 billion. And the end is unpredictable, « Virologist Miklós Rusvai said to Blikk’s question. – This epidemic does not go away by itself, everything must be deployed to stop infectionand in addition to ill and infectious animals, the healthy ones should also be cut. In Europe, the last such big epidemic was in Britain in 2001-2002, where it was at that time to cut ten million animals.

Blikk asked the specialist about whether anyone might have caused this illness at home … The answer may not be surprising: Miklós Rusvai replied yes.

– The authorities must also examine this opportunity. There have been epidemics before, and the suspicion of agricultural terrorism has been raised, that is, that someone deliberately infected the animals. This has not been proven once again, there was no person or organization that would have taken on it anywhere in the world, said a virologist. – But it is very interesting that the first infection appeared in Kisbajcs and the route that could be entered into this area cannot be determined at allsimply there were no other focal points. The nearest infection was on the other side of Turkey, so it was incomprehensible how he could shake his head out of nowhere.

There will be no shortage yet

The damage is huge so far, but if the epidemic continues, they are unpredictable.

– Unfortunately, the evolving epidemic has an increasingly brutal effect on animal husbandry, and it is no coincidence that every means have been used to prevent the disease. This really becomes economically perceptible if it might affect pigs, ”said Levente Tóth, a senior analyst at Bank360.hu. – The forced cutting of cattle is still seriously affected by local companies, but large meat and dairy processors can still make up for the loss of the loss of abroad, so it does not yet appear so much in the price of products, in retail care, but if it were to spread to the pig sector.