{"id":7681,"date":"2018-01-16T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T08:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2018-01-16T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T08:38:06","slug":"gitega-butchers-concerned-about-prohibition-of-goats-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/gitega-butchers-concerned-about-prohibition-of-goats-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitega: Butchers concerned about prohibition of goats\u2019 slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All butchers in Gitega, Kirundo and Mwaro provinces are desperately worried as all markets of small ruminants have been temporarily suspended since 1st January 2018 until the situation comes to normal. They have been closed following the detection of an epidemic disease that has already caused deaths of several goats in those provinces.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7679\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7679\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ch\u00e8vres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"It is strictly prohibited to slaughter goats \" width=\"489\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ch\u00e8vres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ch\u00e8vres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ch\u00e8vres.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It is strictly prohibited to slaughter goats<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Butchers from Gitega province don\u2019t know which way to turn. \u201cI was used to paying my school fees and buying other personal needs thanks to butchering activities after school,\u201d says Niyonkuru, a pupil in 3rd form of post-fundamental school in Bugendana Commune of Gitega Province. Another butcher says they will die of hunger if the ministry of agriculture and livestock doesn\u2019t find solutions as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9ogratias Nsanganiyumwami, director of animal health in the ministry of agriculture and livestock, says over three thousand and forty goats were reported dead on 28 December 2017. \u201cThe goats began to get sick two weeks after they had been distributed to breeders. Local veterinary surgeons tried to treat them in vain,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The affected goats have symptoms such as nasal discharge, lesions, diarrhea, nausea, cough, conjunctivitis, severe tremors and temperature of 41 \u00b0. The disease is very contagious with a quick death that occurs between 5 and 7 days since the appearance of the first symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Laboratory exams already confirmed that the goats suffer from the plague. Nsanganiyumwami appeals to all goat farmers to do breeding in permanent spaces for the small ruminants and isolate all sick animals from those which are healthy. \u201cWe will contain the disease by prohibiting all movement of small ruminants in Gitega, Kirundo and Mwaro provinces,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All butchers in Gitega, Kirundo and Mwaro provinces are desperately worried as all markets of small ruminants have been temporarily suspended since 1st January 2018 until the situation comes to normal. They have been closed following the detection of an epidemic disease that has already caused deaths of several goats in those provinces. 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