#foot and mouth disease

The delivery of 529,000 vaccines against Foot and Mouth disease have been handed over to Cyprus by the European Union, Health Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi confirmed on Saturday night. “529,000 vaccine doses from ...

Burials of livestock culled in the aftermath of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the Larnaca district have begun, Aradippou mayor Christodoulos Partou said on Saturday. “Work began ...

Control measures remain in place on Saturday as Cyprus aims to stem the spread of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease which was detected in the Larnaca district earlier ...

Akel on Friday said Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou must “resign or be sacked”, lambasting her response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district last summer, water shortages, and ...

The customs department, in cooperation with police, has launched an investigation into a 75-year-old individual for the illegal trafficking of hay and animal feed from the north. The inquiry follows ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP deputy leader Erkut Sahali on Friday praised the bicommunal nature of the response to the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the ...

No new cases of foot and mouth disease have been reported on Friday, but the situation remains critical, veterinary services department spokeswoman Sotiria Georgiadou said in her latest briefing at ...

Old calendarist priests entered a farm in the Larnaca district on Wednesday night to bless its goats, with the area having been hit by an outbreak of foot and mouth ...

Cyprus is “still at the beginning” of its fight against an ongoing outbreak of foot and mouth disease, veterinary services department spokeswoman Sotiria Georgiadou said on Thursday, stressing that the ...

It was inevitable that soon after the news about the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease, the search for people to blame would begin. If anything, it took a ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Wednesday promised that “no one will be left behind” as the government attempts to combat an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. “The government stands ...

Cheesemakers’ association spokesman Michalis Koullouros on Thursday called for a halt to the culling of farm animals in light of an outbreak of foot a d mouth disease. “We must ...

A total of 10,000 doses of the foot and mouth disease vaccine sent to the Republic by the Turkish Cypriots have been delivered and received, the north’s ‘agriculture ministry’ said ...

Livestock farmers whose livelihoods have been affected by the recent outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease have the option to reach out to a dedicated hotline to receive psychological support, the ...

The veterinary services confirmed on Wednesday that the foot-and-mouth disease virus detected in livestock units in government-controlled areas is of the same serotype as that circulating in the north. The ...

The government confirmed on Wednesday that compensation of about €4.5 million will be paid to farmers for the culling of roughly 13,000 animals affected by the rapid spread of foot-and-mouth disease. So ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou met farmers in Aradippou on Wednesday morning to hear directly from livestock farmers facing what has been described as ‘the gravest threat in living memory’ to ...

Cyprus’s halloumi exports will continue without disruption after the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia confirmed on Tuesday that they will not impose restrictions on the flagship national cheese, despite ...

Cases of foot and mouth disease in livestock units in Larnaca most likely originated in the north, head of the Turkish Cypriot Veterinary Association Burak Toskoy said on Tuesday. “It ...

MPs described the livestock sector as facing “its gravest threat in living memory”, as they, farmers and officials clashed during a heated session of the House agriculture committee on Tuesday ...

Cyprus put a special national action plan into place on Tuesday and set up a 24-hour crisis management centre to fully coordinate efforts to contain the foot-and-mouth outbreak, which the ...

The Turkish Cypriots are to send a total of 20,000 doses of the foot and mouth disease vaccine to Larnaca, the north’s ‘agriculture minister’ Hüseyin Cavus said on Tuesday ...

Three experts from the European Commission are expected in Cyprus on Tuesday and Wednesday to help deal with the foot and mouth outbreak, while the culling of cows, sheep and ...

The government will support everyone impacted by the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, President Nikos Christodoulides assured the public on Tuesday, adding that exports of halloumi and other dairy products were ...