The first case in Kosovo confirmed with PPR disease affecting sheep and goats, AUV Take Action

According to AUV, samples tested on surrounding farms have resulted negative. AUV has declared the village of Landovica an infected hearth, 3km perimeter from the affected farm.

The Food and Veterinary Agency has acknowledged the announcement on allegations of the presence of the Vajel Ruminant (PPR) disease in a farm in the village of Landovica, Prizren municipality. Veterinary medical inspectors' teams have been activated immediately. Who put the restriction on the suspected farm. From which samples were taken for testing. This morning the Food and Veterinary Laboratory confirmed the presence of disease on the suspected farm. Tested samples on surrounding farms have resulted negative.

In the implementation of the legal mandate, based on the result of AUV laboratory tests, has declared the village of Landovice infected, in threekm perimeter from the affected farm. This area has been established in large quarantine, halting movement that any animal, transport, or flow of animal products and by products. The surrounding farms are placed under suspicion of epidemiology research, research of the source of infection and possible contacts with the infected farm. Biosecurity measures are in place on farms, as well as polluting farms and surrounding areas according to veterinarian protocols”, the report says.

The Food and Veterinary Agency today has issued a decision by No. 01537/2025 For general measures for control, prevention, and fighting disease PPR. Based on Law No. 2004/21 to Veterina.

Decision applies to entire territory of Kosovo Republic

I. General measures:

A) Banning the movement of sheep and goats from farms, trading in markets and commerce;

B) Farmers were forced immediately to report veterinarians in case of changing the health of sheep and goats on their farms,

c) Veterinary practices are binding to report each case suspected with PRPR to official authority AUV,

d) Performing immediate inspections of suspected farms, taking samples and sending to the Food and Veterinary Laboratory;

e) Animal exhumation on farms which result in PPR infection;

f) Communists are obliged to determine locations for the annihilation of infected animals

g) Disinfecting objects and surrounding areas of farms and areas surrounding cases of outbreak of disease;

2 / 1 Except for the point I of this decision, the movement of sheep and goats is allowed by farms free of this disease in licensed slaughter, with the consent of the veterinarian inspector of the Food and Veterinary Agency.

3 / 1 All market managers are ordered from the moment this decision comes into force to suspend the acceptance of sheep and goats in their spaces.

6 / 1 All municipalities, Kosovo Police, in co-ordination and co-operation with AUV are committed to making oversight of the implementation of the measures.

What Is PPR Disease

Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), known as the Great Ruminant Murta, is a highly contagious viral disease that affects sheep and goats. It is characterized by severe symptoms such as high fever, nose leaks, diarrhea, pneumonia, and severe coughing.

“PPR causes significant damage to animal health, increases mortality rates, and has direct impact on the livestock economy. This disease is not zoonotic, meaning that it is not a threat to human health and that it is not transmitted from animal to human”, says the report. /Periscope/