Unknown animal disease kills over 40 heads of cattle in Tonj East Sudan Radio Service Kuajok, 15/8/2012 – Authorities in Warrap state say that an unknown animal disease has in past few days killed over forty heads of cattle in Tonj-North and Tonj-East counties. The Deputy Governor of the state, Aketch Tong Aleu said that a team of veterinary doctors traveled to the two counties in order to rescue the situation. Mister Aketch spoke to SRS by phone from Kuajok on Wednesday. [Aketch Tong]: “There is a disease affecting the cows in Tonj north and Tonj east, the minister of animal’s resources is in the field now with the team to check what type of the disease it is, the team went with a lot of medicine as to identify what kind of disease it is, it is almost forty seven now, this is an outbreak the we will have to confirm it.” Last week authorities in Jonglei state reported that there was an outbreak of east coast fever in the state. East Coast fever is an acute disease of cattle, which is characterized usually by high fever, swelling of the lymph nodes and high mortality.
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