Morocco-Sheep disease.

MOROCCO.

CATTLE PLAGUE.

There are 22 million head of sheep and goats in Morocco, the country now has an outbreak of the dreaded cattle plague, which has meant the death of 4,463 animals due to the sickness.

According to the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, measures have been put into place with the UN Food and Health Organization, to vaccinate animals on 178 farms in the country.

The disease in apparently now under control, according to a government spokesman.