Slovakia to the clinker and the cof
Czechs returned suspicious trucks to Slovakia.
On Sunday at lunch published by Czech Minister of Agriculture Marek excellent information about suspicion of a new fireplace infection Slinters and cubes In Záhorie, 50 kilometers on the Czech border.
Slovak minister Richard Takáč of Direction He confirmed the information at half past eight in the evening. The seven -hour time window opens questions as to whether Slovakia is responding sufficiently to a critical situation.
Last week, the European Commission experts evaluated Slovak measures as reasonable. However, there have been cases that indicate possible failures at the border and farms in recent days. The opposition also criticizes the measures.
« The reactions of Fico’s government are the slowest in the whole region. And even about what they pursue – the liquidation of breeding in the outbreaks of the infection – government parties publicly argue, » said the opposition leader. PS Michal Šimečka.
Alojz Hlina of SaS He pointed out that while the Czech Republic and Austria immediately stopped from Slovakia, there is a suspicion that meat was imported from Hungary.
According to him, it was also striking that at the border crossing in Medveďov even after confirming the infection lacked Brody. « The Hungarians, from which it came, had to join Hungary, and we did not have it, » Hlina describes his visit to the border.
Started late
The occurrence of drooling and bovine cattle in the village of Kisbajcs in the Győr district, about two kilometers from the border with Slovakia, announced Hungary on March 7.
Minister Takáč had the first press conference dedicated to this topic up to 14 March. With the head of the State Veterinary and Food Administration, Martin Chudý, then, appealed that breeders had active disinfectant fords, to pay the ban on the entry of strangers to farms and that the animals, if the situation permits, were held in the stables.
The ban on the relocation of live animals concerned eight municipalities in the districts of Dunajská Streda and Komárno, which hit the Hungarian restriction band.
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Between the time when the Hungarians published official information about the infection, and his first reaction, Minister Takáč on the social network published eleven contributions to the International Women’s Day celebrations, recalls Hlina.
In Slovakia, the infection was confirmed on 21 March in three breeds in the south of the country.
The Ministry responded by several restrictions on the transport of animals. It has banned mass events, markets, exhibitions and seductions of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs and other bolders and the entry of unauthorized people into breeds.
The opposition reproaches the government that it did not act much earlier, as soon as it was 7 March clear that there was a risk of an epidemic.
« He was supposed to meet the Central Crisis Staff immediately, the government was supposed to activate crisis plans and coordination with neighbors, and of course, to convene security councils, » says Šimečka.
On Monday, more than three weeks after the first information was published, the crisis crew met several times, and the government also met.
PS points out that the Security Council did not fit at all. « No one has heard of the crisis plan, » says Šimečka.
Missing instructions
The Veterinary Care Act says that together with the Ministry is responsible for the management of the veterinarian. This also results from the National Emergency Plan in the event of the suspicion and occurrence of a clinker and a clergy in the territory of the Slovak Republic, which in December 2023 approved Takáč.
« The responsibility for the control of the clinkers and the coffers has the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The veterinary report with the media, except for press discussions, does not communicate. According to their agreement, the ministry, which is not answered by the SME or other media questions, should be answered by the Agreement.
Hlina himself owns a biofarm, ten kilometers from the confirmed focus in Záhorie. « No one could tell us what to do, » he says.
« I would expect the state to have a manual, and if it does not, he should learn from someone, » says Hlina. For example, the government could translate German materials, because Germany has recently managed the epidemic of the clinker.
The problem arose in the discussion of the pit near Hlohovec, where they were supposed to dig killed animals. The Wolf Mountain Landfill was one of the selected sites, but the town of Hlohovec was not informed in advance.
The location is an illegal landfill and Slovakia faces a fine from the European Union.
Czechs sent trucks back
The Hungarians also behaved more carefully at the border than the Slovak authorities.
Hlina 23. According to him, it is not difficult to build. « You buy foam in the store and pour disinfection, it performs the function until you get a ford. »
Even more serious situation was taken by Czechs who limited the entry of trucks to four border crossings, where they installed disinfectant thresholds. Some cars were diverted by police for disinfection.
They stopped an empty truck with Hungarian registration marks that transported meat. It was dirty and a fluid resembling a blood mixed with water leaked from the stinking trailer. Czech police him returned to Slovakia.
The Czech Republic has already banned the transport of animals from Hungary and Slovakia, with the exception of the transport of animals from Slovakia directly to the slaughterhouses.
Poland has banned imports from Slovakia on March 21, concerning even biological materials, meat and dairy products, as well as by -animal products, manure, straw, hay and others.
« It is extremely hard, but it can be understood, » says Hlina.
He pointed out that last week, pork from Hungary had brought to Kremnica mines, as the ban on meat was not covered. « While the Austrians, Poles and Czechs banned the import of meat from Slovakia and Hungary, we were extremely generous to the Hungarians. »
Chaos in the coalition
The confidence of the population to established measures is also undermined by contradictory statements of coalition politicians.
Vice -President of the Parliamentary Committee for Agriculture and the Environment Branislav Becík He asked to re -evaluate the killing of healthy breeds from his voice. On the social network he published a video according to which the liquidation of healthy domestic breeds in the protection zone in the villages of the municipalities of Ňárad, Medveďov and Lúč is stopped.
His words were denied a few hours later by Minister Takáč, who reiterated that strict measures in the three -kilometer circuit from the focus of the infection were not released. In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of people clicked on Becik’s video.
Slintečka and Krivačka
- The clinker and clergy is a highly contagious, acute, feverish viral disease of livestock with significant economic impacts.
- It is not dangerous for people and is not a risk to public health.
- The consumption of pasteurized milk and pasteurized milk products, as well as sufficiently heat -treated meat and meat products, is safe.
- The Ministry of Health recommends buying meat, milk and dairy products from dealers who are subject to regular food control.
- Slinteer and Kriva are only exceptionally transmitted to people. For sure, however, it is necessary to eat pasteurized milk and cooked meat. From pets, it is transmitted to cows, pigs, sheep and goats. Dogs and cats cannot get sick, but they can transmit the infection to the hair.
Beata
Balogová
Editor -in -chief
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