GUWAHATI
More than 200 goats died of PPR (peste des petits ruminants) or goat plague in two villages of central Mizoram’s Serchhip district over a month, the Bhopal-based National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases confirmed a week ago.
Serchhip was one of five districts of Mizoram where more than 1,000 pigs died of African swine fever (ASF) in March-April 2021. One of these districts was Siaha where several mithuns – semi-wild bovines locally called ‘gayal’ – died due to a localised outbreak of FMD, which expands to foot-and-mouth disease.
