{"id":9115,"date":"2018-06-14T06:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9115"},"modified":"2018-06-15T05:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T05:17:35","slug":"burundi-import-of-small-ruminants-forbidden-until-further-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-import-of-small-ruminants-forbidden-until-further-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Import of small ruminants forbidden until further notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a sheep and goat plague that had struck small ruminants throughout the country in December 2017, the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock has removed all measures that were taken to reduce the free movement, trade and slaughtering of those domestic animals, this 13 June.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8991\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8991\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/D\u00e9o-Guide-rurema-3.jpg\" alt=\"D\u00e9o Guide Rurema: \u201c3,058,150 goats and sheep were vaccinated all over the country\" width=\"391\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/D\u00e9o-Guide-rurema-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/D\u00e9o-Guide-rurema-3-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/D\u00e9o-Guide-rurema-3-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/D\u00e9o-Guide-rurema-3-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D\u00e9o-Guide Rurema: \u201cAfter 21 days of observation since 23 May, there hasn\u2019t been any added suspected case\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter 21 days of observation since 23 May, there hasn\u2019t been any added suspected case. Therefore, traders of small ruminants and butchers should resume activities from 13 June,\u201d says D\u00e9o Guide Rurema, Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, says the ban on the import of small ruminants is maintained until further notice. \u201cVeterinary services continue to conduct studies to verify the degree of immunity coverage of the national herd before authorizing the introduction of small ruminants from other countries,\u201d he has said.<\/p>\n<p>Over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/over-three-million-small-ruminants-vaccinated-throughout-burundi\/\" target=\"_blank\">three million<\/a> goats and sheep have been vaccinated all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>About 8000 sheep and goats had died following the plague that struck them for the time in the country in December 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a sheep and goat plague that had struck small ruminants throughout the country in December 2017, the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock has removed all measures that were taken to reduce the free movement, trade and slaughtering of those domestic animals, this 13 June. \u201cAfter 21 days of observation since 23 May, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[45,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9117,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions\/9117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}