Why is Greece abandoning vaccination against polio with the IPV? **Note:** The abbreviation "ДПЖ" stands for "Inactivated Polio Vaccine" (IPV) in Bulgarian.

More than 1,100 outbreaks of sheep pox in small ruminants and hundreds of thousands of culled sheep and goats. This is the situation in our southern neighbor, Greece. However, why vaccination is still not an option for the livestock farmers there was revealed by Greece's Minister of Agriculture, Kostas Tziara. "The available preparations (vaccines – ed.note) come from third countries, no European country has introduced vaccination, and clinical studies show that immunity reaches only up to 60% of vaccinated animals. If we continue with such an uncertain choice, we would be threatening even our exports – and especially the most important product of our livestock, feta cheese," the minister commented to Real FM. Farmers confirmed that there are vaccinated farms with a Turkish vaccine against sheep pox. At the same time, Tziaras made an extensive review of the course of the plague and sheep pox since the summer of 2024 in Greece, emphasizing the main differences between the two ...