Many goats and sheep with PPR enter into the district from India every year due to lack of a quarantine check post on Nepal-India border.[break]
Although the government has been spending millions of rupees for a vaccination campaign against PPR, open entry of sick goats and sheep from India is rampant in the district.
It may be noted that this year also District Livestock Service Office Dhanusha had administered PPR vaccine to some 40,000 goats free of cost.
According to the office, it had cost over Rs. 100,000 for the office to run the vaccination campaign.
Data made available by the office shows that some 1,000 goats and sheep die of PPR in the district every year.
Though goats here are regularly administered with PPR vaccine, the disease is beyond control due to open import of goats and sheep from India, said senior veterinary Doctor Surya Dev Saha.
Rural famers here are forced to incur loss of millions of rupees every year due to the deaths of their cattle because of PPR.
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