Approximately 40% of Greece’s soft cheese is derived from sheep and goat milk produced in Thessaly ... dependent on small ruminants. The PPR virus was first identified in 1942 in the Ivory ...

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 ... posed by a virus that ...

Also known as the “goat plague,” the PPR virus is a highly contagious disease affecting goats and sheep, causing severe illness and death. It has no adverse effect on human health, according ...

It is also planning to vaccinate goats and sheep against Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which will be administered once, which the Ministry noted is adequate to cover the animals for life.