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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Disease kills 75,000 goats in DRC

Disease kills 75,000 goats in DRC

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                              June 26, 2012 at 9:29 PM           
UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (UPI) -- A livestock disease has killed 75,000 goats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and many more goats and sheep are at risk of contracting it, officials say.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said DRC authorities report 1 million goats and 600,000 sheep are threatened by peste des petits ruminants, considered the most destructive viral disease affecting small flocks, the U.N. agency said in a release.
"This is the worst livestock epidemic in the country in more than 10 years," the organization's representative in DRC, Ndiaga Gueye, said in the release.
Farmers, he said, have been moving their animals away from infected villages, which in turn has spread the virus to healthy flocks...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/06/26/Disease-kills-75000-goats-in-DRC/UPI-11501340760545/