AFRICAN PLAGUE: IN CAPITAL?

Armenian veterinary surgeons have developed a program on “Fight against Plague” and submitted it to the government, veterinary science inspection head, Grisha Baghyan, told Panorama.am. Baghyan hopes that the executive will approve the program in its Thursday session already. Before the program will become effective, the veterinary surgeons have taken preventive measures in hot spots of the plague, Lory and Tavush region – they are disinfecting the surroundings and killing pigs. “In some villages we have killed dozens of them eliminating them from the village totally,” Baghyan said.

Yesterday information was disseminated that pigs infected with plague have been detected in one of Yerevan pigsties. Asked if that may be “African Plague,” Baghyan said no final laboratory checks have been made. “It is not excluded that it is the same “African Plague,” Baghyan said.