They sacrifice 17 thousand animals for sheep pox in Spain

The reappearance of sheep pox has Spanish territory on alert, which is why contingency measures have been intensified to mitigate its departure from the territory to other municipalities or even countries. After 50 years without cases of sheep and goat pox in the country, outbreaks forced the authorities to order the slaughter of more than 17,000 animals, in order to mitigate the spread of this disease and prevent it from reaching other areas. Since the first outbreak of smallpox was reported, on September 19, on a farm in Granada, more cases were detected in neighboring areas and then the outbreak jumped to Cuenca, an area farther from Granada, which forced to take stricter measures, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA). Despite the attempt to mitigate the outbreak, nine areas of concentration of the disease have already been registered, so the areas were isolated so that the disease does not spread to other municipalities. So far, all the cases ...