CONTROL MEASURES FOR BLUE TONGUE VIRUS IMPOSED ON AEGEAN ISLAND
October 1st, 2012
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
GREECE has clamped down sharply on movements of livestock on the Aegean island of Kos, to prevent bluetongue virus spreading to other islands and the Greek mainland. It follows reports of 10 cases being discovered in sheep and one in goats on the eastern Aegean island, which is just 4km from the Turkish coast.
Spiros Doudounakis, director of the animal health directorate at the ministry of rural development and food told the Meats Trade Journal that all the cases were in commercial farms and that "all appropriate measures ...
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