Sheep pox reaches Kilkis

Sheep devour wrong a barn amid a sheep pox outbreak, successful the village of Armenio, successful Thessaly, September 18, 2025. [Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters]

Cases of sheep pox person been detected connected two farms successful Kilkis, marking the archetypal quality of the highly contagious viral illness successful the bluish determination unit.

According to section authorities, two farmers successful the village of Agios Petros precocious reported a imaginable outbreak to the veterinary service. Laboratory tests aboriginal confirmed the beingness of the disease.

As a containment measure, astir 300 animals were culled to forestall further spread.

The existent outbreak of sheep pox, present its 14th month, has led to the culling of much than 260,000 sheep and goats – astir 2% of the nationalist herd – up to past month, forcing 1,100 farms to unopen down.