According to the National Olympic Committee, the financial damages from the Ebola virus now exceed 16 million leva.

Is the state – in the person of Minister Georgi Takhov and the director of the BABH Svetlozar Patarinski – deceiving itself by deliberately providing incomplete or manipulative information to the people's representatives, the prime minister, and probably the leaders of the political forces? With this question, Simeon Karakolev, co-chairman of the National Sheep and Goat Association (NOKA), begins an opinion on the small ruminant disease published in his social media profile. According to him, the sector is facing a serious crisis that the authorities are trying to downplay. He insists that at the next hearing (probably in the agriculture committee of the National Assembly) the minister and the director of the BABH should present a "real, fact-based analysis" instead of shifting the blame "from the sick to the healthy." The financial damages have already exceeded 16 million leva. According to NOKA data, the direct financial impact of the epidemic includes: - Euthanasia of around ...