Cyprus Considers State of Emergency Over Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak
Cyprus is contemplating declaring a state of emergency and has deployed the National Guard to prevent a 'total livestock disaster' as the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak escalates into a national security crisis.
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National action plan, crisis centre to deal with FMD outbreak
Cyprus put a special national action plan into place on Tuesday and set up a 24-hour crisis management centre to fully coordinate efforts to contain the foot-and-mouth outbreak, which the agriculture ministry said has so far impacted 14,000 animals. The decision was taken at a broad meeting at JRCC’s Zenon centre with the participation of […]
Read full article →‘What becomes of me now?’ Larnaca farmers face ruin as foot-and-mouth spreads
Andreas Eleftheriou Sarmalis is 20 years old. His father is bedridden. And he is alone on the farm, watching foot-and-mouth disease close in. “I’m in shock,” he said. “What we’re going through is like what Limassol went through last summer with the fires. We are children of pain — we have to endure.” Sarmalis farms […]
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