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Minor dispute at Maximos Mansion between the President of Kastoria Livestock Association and the Rector of the University of Thessaly regarding goat and sheep pox

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made it clear that the issue is fundamental to Greek livestock farming and that the government will not negotiate on it

Video: Farmer tearfully says goodbye to his 450 sheep — all of his local breed

Hundreds of animals of the Rumluki breed will be slaughtered due to the outbreak of sheep pox

Sheep pox outbreak: Cases detected in 250 farms across Central Macedonia – 57,000 animals killed

Deputy Regional Governor of Central Macedonia: “We are facing a health crisis on the scale of the coronavirus pandemic. The sheep pox epidemic has taken on dramatic proportions, with previously unknown characteristics. One relates to the disease’s extreme transmissibility...”

Public health is not at risk from sheep and goat pox, assures an AUTH professor – Farmers are concerned

Spyros Kritas explains that the receptors ("locks") on human cells do not match the virus's "keys," preventing infection

Sheep pox: Nationwide ten-day closure of abattoirs

In light of recent data, 104 outbreaks of sheep pox were addressed, leading to the culling of 17,500 animals in Evros, Komotini, Xanthi, Kavala, Serres, Magnesia, and Corinth