RUSSIANS BLOCK SHEEP AND GOAT POX OUTBREAK
April 1st, 2013
THE RUSSIAN government says it has stamped out two outbreaks of sheep and goat pox using a mass vaccination, movement control and disinfection campaign. Dr Evgeny Nepoklonov, deputy head of the federal service for veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance at Russia’s ministry of agriculture said there were “no more cases”. They had broken out in the remote Zabaykalsky Krai region in Siberia, north of the Mongolia border, at two villages - Ust-Imalka and Kluchevskoye, the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation was ...
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