Tirunelveli District Collector R. Sukumar inaugurated vaccination of goats and sheep for Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) virus at Kulavanigarpuram in Palayamkottai on Monday. He said the farmers ...

Until further action is taken, no consignments of small ruminants - sheep and goats - are allowed to enter Hungary from Romania. The Nébih laboratory detected the virus in samples taken from a ...

The Animal Husbandry department will launch a Statewide vaccination against Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), also known as sheep and goat plague (Adu Vasantha in Malayalam), by mid-October.

Residents visiting EU countries not affected by PPR must also not carry sheep or goat products back to the Isle of Man "unless commercially produced and packaged to EU standards”.

The baby goat that got Steinmetz Family Farm booted from the 2024 NYS Fair didn’t have a suspected virus after all, according to the goat’s owner, Justin Steinmetz. Steinmetz last night ...

Effective immediately in England, with Wales following suit Thursday, August 22, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has stated that Scotland will soon adopt similar ...

Greece temporarily restricted the movement of goats and sheep last month as confirmed cases rose but now the country has said the ban could partially lift. “The movement of animals for slaughter ...

The presence of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) virus, also referred to as sheep and goat plague, has led to more than 200,000 animals being killed in Romania since it was first detected in mid-July.

PPR was first discovered in Ivory Coast in 1942, but has since spread around the world to more than 70 countries. It does not affect humans but it can kill between 80% and 100% of infected goats ...

A virulent 'goat plague' is currently causing chaos in Greece and Romania, raising concerns about its potential impact on humans. The illness, officially known as Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR ...

ATHENS — Governments in southeastern Europe are scrambling to contain an outbreak of sheep and goat plague that allegedly began last month in Romania and threatens to spread through Bulgaria and the ...