The borders are closed because of the mouth and mouth disease (MKS) in parts of Lower Austria and in Burgenland, sometimes there are epidemic carpets. The army was asked for help on Friday. The quota of people and equipment is great, as Colonel Jürgen explains.
A local inspection on the edge in Halbturn shows that there is a barrier of concrete control walls. There is windstream in the community. Like in Corona Times. “You only notice how many people actually drive through it,” said the tenor among the population.
With the border barrier, which forces thousands of employees from Hungary to drive a large detour via Nickelsdorf or Pamhagen, you want to prevent the mouth and mouth disease from being dragged to Austria.
The Burgenland was also asked. On Friday there was already a group for exploration in the area. What raised the question whether the army would then withdraw from Slovakia. Because various troops from the Disaster Aid unit of the federal army (“Austrian forces relief unit”) have been in use since 26 March.
Enough resources
The head of the ABC Defense Center in Korleuburg, Colonel Jürgen Schlechter. The 53 soldiers who currently serve in Slovakia do not have to be ordered back. “There are plenty of reserves in Austria. We don’t need the soldiers and the device there,” he explains. Because according to the bad eleven disinfecting vehicles there are for such locations, two of which are currently in Slovakia.
Soldiers have been with the help in Burgenland since this weekend. If MKS cases take place in Austria, the army also has capacity to be able to move forces to hit livestock farming. “Our means are designed for massive contamination,” Bad explains. If there were 10,000 animals in a company, the animals would have to be crumbled in a very short time. “Above all, this is a logistics task.” Because the dead animals should be removed from the farm and the vehicles had to be disinfected before they leave the courtyards. “There is the use of our disinfecting systems logical,” said the ABC boss.
In particular, this means when a case occurs: the Bundestrupp can drive to any farm and is on the border of the limited zone defined by the authority. “Every person and every vehicle that then comes from this limited zone is then disinfected by us,” explains the military man.
Such a mission was last in October 2024 in the Amstetten district of Lower Austria after an outbreak of bird flu. At that time, thousands of chickens and other poultry had to be killed.
Source: Krone
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