Armenia is protected against penetration of sheep and goat plague
YEREVAN, March 4. /ARKA/. Armenia is protected against the penetration of sheep and goat plague, the State Food Safety Service, an affiliation of the Ministry of Agriculture, said today. It said it was taking a string of preventive measures in connection with cases of goat plague, registered in Iran, Turkey and Georgia.
The agency said it was in talks with the -Russian Research Institute for Animal Health to buy anti-plague vaccines. The decision to purchase the vaccines was taken by the government of Armenia on March 3.
Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan said on March 3 that it will purchase additional vaccines and conduct immunization of all cattle and sheep and goats in all border regions. Overall, it wants to buy 500 thousand doses of vaccine for cattle and one million doses for sheep and goats. The vaccines are expected to arrive in Armenia in the next 20-25 days.
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), also known as ‘goat plague,’ is a viral disease of goats and sheep characterized by fever, sores in the mouth, diarrhea, pneumonia, and sometimes death. It is caused by a morbillivirus in the family of paramyxoviruses, that is related to rinderpest, measles and canine distemper. Cattle and several wild ruminants have been infected most often experimentally, but goats and sheep are the usual targets. -0-
The agency said it was in talks with the -Russian Research Institute for Animal Health to buy anti-plague vaccines. The decision to purchase the vaccines was taken by the government of Armenia on March 3.
Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan said on March 3 that it will purchase additional vaccines and conduct immunization of all cattle and sheep and goats in all border regions. Overall, it wants to buy 500 thousand doses of vaccine for cattle and one million doses for sheep and goats. The vaccines are expected to arrive in Armenia in the next 20-25 days.
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), also known as ‘goat plague,’ is a viral disease of goats and sheep characterized by fever, sores in the mouth, diarrhea, pneumonia, and sometimes death. It is caused by a morbillivirus in the family of paramyxoviruses, that is related to rinderpest, measles and canine distemper. Cattle and several wild ruminants have been infected most often experimentally, but goats and sheep are the usual targets. -0-