With 5 outbreaks of plague in Western Greece, Spanish and Romanian lambs filled the local market

According to the results of the epidemiological investigation and the laboratory results, a large-scale veterinary enterprise is being created for the second time in a few days. This time in the Region of Western Greece. As the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications emphasizes, "this particular operation, which is being developed following the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Costas Tsiaras and coordinated by the Secretary General of the Ministry Giorgos Stratakos, is expected to be larger than the one in Thessaly. Veterinarians, as well as geotechnicians of other specialties, are already working in the field in the PE of Etoloakarnania and PE of Ilia, who constantly arrive from all over Greece, at the two business centers based in Pyrgos and Agrinio. The aim is to immediately control 2,504 livestock holdings and 436,500 goats and sheep living in the protection and surveillance zones already defined in accordance with European rules. To date, ...