Two new foot-and-mouth cases recorded on Lesvos farms

Two caller cases of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth livestock illness person been recorded connected the eastbound Aegean Sea land of Lesvos, authorities said Friday.

The Rural Development Ministry said a total 20 cases person been recorded so acold since mid-March, when Greece’s archetypal outbreak of the illness successful a 4th period was recorded. All were successful the Pelopi and Napi areas of bluish Lesvos.

The two caller cases were among goats and sheep. Under wellness regulations, the full flocks to which the sick animals beryllium will beryllium culled.

The outbreak, that has so acold been contained to Lesvos, comes arsenic Greek livestock farming has been hammered by a sheep and goat pox epidemic which has forced the slaughter of astir fractional a cardinal animals since the archetypal lawsuit was recorded successful August 2024.

Neither illness affects humans.