Ministry of Environment and Water culls 200 infectious sheep
WAM (Emirates News Agency)


Dubai ,19th July 2010 (WAM) -- Ministry of Environment and Water has culled a shipment of 200 sheep and goats seized in an smuggling attempt through one of the country's exits. The legal procedures were taken and the animals were confiscated as for violating import regulations followed in the country as per the ministerial resolution number /548/ of 2008 and the federal law number 6 of 1979 on veterinary quarantine.

The ministry said that the shipment had also breached the animal welfare law number 16 of 2006 regarding conditions of transportation of livestock. Laboratory tests have also shown that the animals were found infected with plague of small ruminants, food and mouth disease and blue tongue, a group of epidemic contagious ills infecting both man and animal.

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