the highly contagious peste de petits ruminants (PPR) quickly spread to affect several farms in neighbouring Romania, prompting authorities to cull nearly 58,000 sheep and goats in response.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some 500,000 cattle have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease since the start of the nationwide campaign on January ...

Most of the world’s more than 2 billion sheep and goats are grazed on range in countries such as Australia and New Zealand. Farmers in the United States raised nearly 5.02 million sheep and 2.51 ...