UZBEKISTAN: TASHKENT BANS TURKMEN ANIMAL PRODUCTS
Eurasianet
9/22/09
Uzbekistan has banned meat and diary imports from Turkmenistan to
guard against the spread of a "dangerous epidemiological situation"
in the Turkmen province of Dashoguz.
According to a report distributed by the official Russian news agency
RIA Novosti, an unidentified Uzbek official in Khorezm Province
identified the threat as "hemorrhagic fever."
"People get infected and die because of untimely and insufficient
preventive measures," the official said on September 22 without
elaborating. The most common form of hemorrhagic fever in Central
Asia is the tick-borne Congo-Crimean variety. Numerous outbreaks
of the often deadly infection have been reported across the region
this summer.