Oman Health: Steps taken to prevent diseases transmitted by animals

Muscat: Specialists at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries are now taking necessary precautionary measures to prevent communicable diseases that transmit from animal to man, such as Crimean hemorrhagic fever.
As a precautionary measure, the Ministry raised the level of the precautionary measures in force in a bid to limit the spread of Crimean hemorrhagic fever and contain it at various levels.
The Ministry contacted the live animal exporters to the Sultanate to ensure compliance with all requirements for exporting live animals to the quarantines.
It also amended the mechanisms used for the license to import 10 heads of live cattle for direct slaughter by each citizen without quarantine.
The Ministry also activated the procedures for internal quarantine of any farm or ban that sells animals with suspected diseases and ban the sale of such animals until the disease risk is resolved in coordination with the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources, as well as with Muscat, Dhofar and Sohar municipalities.