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Veterinary Health & Surveillance Services
The Directorate of Animal Health Services is Borno State’s primary line of defense against animal epidemics and transboundary diseases. By combining active field surveillance with modern digital tracking engines, this pillar secures the health of Borno’s livestock population, ensures public meat safety across municipal abattoirs, and coordinates rapid field interventions to safeguard pastoral wealth.
Continuous, data-driven field monitoring to detect, map, and isolate animal disease pathogens before they escalate into epidemics.
- Operational Scope: Regular field sampling along high-traffic transhumance (migration) channels, cross-border monitoring at entry vectors like Banki, and logging animal health statuses directly onto the GIS Livestock Mapping interface.
A digitized emergency response framework that allows community veterinarians and animal health workers to flag high livestock mortality instantly.
Operational Scope: Managing the state’s Digital Animal Disease Reporting System to route real-time field alerts straight to BOLMA triage teams, deploying rapid containment forces, and establishing temporary quarantine perimeters to isolate threats.
State-wide, systematically tracked preventative immunization campaigns targeting high-threat endemic diseases.
Operational Scope: Mass distribution of vaccines for Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in cattle, Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in sheep and goats, Anthrax, and localized poultry strains. Progress is tracked live using the Vaccine Cold Chain Strengthening analytics module.
On-the-ground technical support and advisory clinics to educate pastoralist cooperatives on modern biosecurity protocols.
Operational Scope: Regular community outreach workshops, training sessions for local livestock handlers on early symptom identification, and distributing multi-language herd health guidelines.
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Infrastructure & Surveillance Framework
BOLMA’s veterinary operations transition raw field data into quick executive field actions using a 3-tier biosecurity model:
Active Operations Tracker: The Immunization Pipeline
To preserve international trade integrity, BOLMA maintains strict public accountability regarding active vaccination distributions. The matrix below details current transboundary containment targets across the 27 LGAs:
| Targeted Disease | Primary Livestock Impacted | Primary Core Vaccine Used | Current Deployment Focus |
| CBPP (Bovine Pleuropneumonia) | Cattle | T1/44 Culture Vaccine | High-density grazing corridors / RUGA models |
| PPR (Peste des Petits Ruminants) | Sheep & Goats | PPR Homologous Strain | Community-based multiplication clusters |
| Anthrax / Black Quarter | Cattle, Sheep, Camels | Spore Vaccine Blends | Border entry zones & regional livestock markets |