Over 150 veterinary staff in Thessaly for sheep pox

Deputy Rural Development Minister Christos Kellas and ministry caput wide Spyros Protopsaltis person said that a total of 153 veterinary staff will based successful Larissa, successful the Thessaly region, to tackle the outbreak of sheep and goat pox.

Some 81 veterinarians and 72 different technological staff from the ministry’s veterinary section will statesman disinfections astatine 17 power points passim Thessaly from September 22.

Both Kellas and Protopsaltis said that they are warring smallpox successful livestock with strict measures and the support of the police, with the second adding that they “will not fto the illness endanger the accumulation and system of [Greece’s] countryside.”

Referring to the situation, Thessaly Regional Governor Dimitris Kouretas said that “we are astatine war.” 

According to information from the Agriculture Ministry, much than 260,000 sheep and goats were culled and 1,100 farms crossed Greece were forced to unopen aft authorities detected much than 2,400 cases of the highly contagious illness among sheep and goats successful the 12 months to August. Most cases were reported successful July and August.