AFRICAN PLAGUE REACHES AKHALTSIKHE VILLAGES

AKHALTSIKHE, JUNE 11, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The viral desease
called African plague, which causes mass pig decrease, has reached
Samtskhe-Javakhk from Samagrelo and Imereti regions of Georgia.

According to the information reported to Noyan Tapan by A-Info,
currently the virus is recorded in five villages of the region of
Akhaltsikhe. The greatest damage was caused to those farms that are
engaged in cattle-breeding.

Specialists already work in the above-mentioned villages and implement
sanitary measures. Besides, daily laboratory researches are conducted
at the local markets and there has been no record of infected pork sale
so far.