FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN ERITREA

(Date of last previously reported outbreak: 1999).

Extract from the monthly reports on the animal health situation in Eritrea for January, February and March 2001, received from Dr Ghebrehiwet Teame, Director of the Veterinary Services Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Asmara:

New outbreaks during the month of January 2001:

Location	No. of outbreaks
Goluj, Gash-Barka region, 180 km south-west of Barentu	1
Gergef, Gash-Barka region, 200 km south-west of Barentu	1

New outbreaks during the month of February 2001: none.

New outbreaks during the month of March 2001: none.

Total number of animals in the outbreaks:

species	susceptible	cases	deaths	destroyed	slaughtered
bov	200,000	200	...	...	...

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