PRO/AH> Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia – Saudi Arabia: (JZ) goat

Other Animal Disease — Saudi Arabia
Residents of a village in Abu Arish governorate, east of the Jizan region, complained about the incursion of a strange disease that transforms goats into skeletons before killing them; amid fears of transmission and expansion of the disease, [the residents] demanded vaccination.
Samples were collected from sick goats about a week ago by the agriculture department, and results are indicative of infection with the highly contagious pleuritis, or what is known among the public as “Abu