NKR IN STRUGGLE WITH AFRICAN PLAGUE
Panorama.am
20:23 10/11/2007
An epidemic office is established in NK against swine African
plague. The epidemic was found in the regions Askeran and Martakert,
but some outbreaks were found in the capital, too. Grisha Baghinyan,
the head of foodstuff security and veterinary state inspectorate
of the Ministry of Agronomy announced about the epidemic today. NKR
government affirmed to take measures to prevent the future development
of the epidemic. The first alarm about the swine African plague the
inspectorate got on October 26. It is known that today in Armenia
there exist 19 breeding ground of disease: 13 in the region Lory and
6 in the region Tavush. 5500 swine were annihilated in Lory and Tavush
to limit the development of the plague.