The contagious nodular dermatosis returns in the French Alps, after having quickly extended to Savoyard Farms. Transmitted by insect bites, contagious nodular dermatosis (DNC) is a viral disease that addresses cows, buffalo and bait. It had been detected for the first time in France at the end of June, which resulted in the preventive killing of just over 1,700 animals to try to stop its progress in the French territory.
On August 28, 2025, 77 homes have been detected in about forty French farms since the appearance of the disease in France, including 32 homes in Savoy, 44 homes in Haute-Savoie and a home in AIN, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. A home relates to a group of animals, inseparable with each other, where infectious nodular dermatosis has been detected of at least one animal.
More than 1,700 animals killed
But “the dynamics of the disease is decreasing” in the French soil, the Ministry of Agriculture observed this Thursday afternoon during a press point. A new DNC house has not been detected since August 22, when the disease was reported for the first time in the AIN, the ministry said, he added that a “ten -day set between the last home and the penultimate home.”
To counteract its rapid advance in France, while the summer period is particularly favorable for stingy insects (flies, Taa) that transmit the disease, the State had ordered the systematic killing of the entire flock within which an infected animal has been identified. Currently, 1,718 animals have been killed in France, according to the Ministry, while a house must still be depopulated.
Mandatory vaccination
The systematic killing, however, arouses a strong emotion within the agricultural world, where certain breeders and unions dispute the health strategy implemented by the State. Paysanne Confederation activists, one of the unions opposed to systematic massacre along with rural coordination, still mobilized this Wednesday, August 27 in the Savoyard mountains to accelerate access to an alpine Alpine Alpine and avoid the killing of a herd, reports the Dauphine Libéré.
In addition to the systematic killing, the vaccination of livestock was also mandatory within the “regulated zone” that brings together the two departments of Savoyard, as well as the neighboring departments of Ain and Isère. Although the vaccination campaign was launched in mid -July, “just over 90% of the animals involved” were vaccinated on August 28, the Ministry of Agriculture welcomes with approval, which is delighted with a “very encouraging signal for disease control.”
Source: BFM TV
