Disease kills 75,000 goats in DRC
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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/
"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/
