Georgia recently reported its first-ever case of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), a viral disease which is capable of severely impacting goat and sheep populations, while a new outbreak has ...

First detected on July 11 in Thessaly, central Greece, the highly contagious peste de petits ruminants (PPR) quickly ... on moving sheep and goats from their farms. The disease poses a significant ...

PPR is a highly contagious trans-boundary animal disease of wild and domestic small ruminants ... Affected sheep and goats suffer severe respiratory and digestive problems with high fatality ...

It adds: “Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a viral disease, caused by a morbillivirus closely related to rinderpest virus, which affects goats, sheep, and some wild relatives of domesticated ...