Cattle number: 701 000 (decreasing), 474 000 in large scale farms, 227 000 in the backyard
IBR status: positive
Official IBR eradication plan: Since 2002 an obligatory IBR eradication program is running.
IBR-free certification: To achieve IBR-free status all the animals of the farm have to be individually tested (serology) twice a year
IBR herd/individual prevalence: Not available
Vaccination: Both live and inactivated marker vaccines are available and used in the fmarker vaccines ield. Small back yard farms must use only inactivated vaccines while the majority of large dairy herds prefer to use live vaccine.