Kenya: 100 goats die in Garissa

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Source: https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/ga...y9r/index.html

Worry as strange disease kills over 100 goats in Garissa
Thursday January 9 2020
By BRUHAN MAKONG

In Summary

Livestock feeding on pasture in areas invaded by desert locusts contacted the mysterious disease.
Mr Shale revealed that Lagdera, Dadaab and Balambala sub-counties are the ones mostly affected by locusts menace.
Danyere MCA Daud Aden urged the response team to empower local communities to deal with the locusts.


The County government of Garissa has dispatched a team of veterinary doctors to areas that were recently invaded by desert locusts following an outbreak of a mysterious livestock disease.

Addressing journalists Thursday, County Agriculture Executive Mohamed Abdi Shale said the disease has claimed more than 100 goats in Lagdera and Dadaab.

Mr Shale said that residents reported that livestock feeding on pasture in areas that have been invaded by the desert locusts contacted a mysterious disease that is causing deaths of animals...

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Source: https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties/...ed-to-locusts/



Experts sent to diagnose disease linked to locusts
More than 100 goats die in Garissa’s Lagdera and Balambala.
In Summary

• County Livestock executive Mohamed Shale said the county risks losing extensive pasture if the locust spread is not contained.

• The county response team comprises county officials, the office of the county commissioner, the National Drought Management Authority and the Kenya Red Cross Society.


A team of experts have been dispatched to Garissa's Lagdera and Balambala to investigate a strange disease that has killed more than 100 goats in areas invaded by the desert locust.

They include crop experts and veterinary officers. Also accompanying them are volunteers. The move comes as Northeastern leaders blamed the national government for failing to contain the spread of the pests, despite having been informed of their migration towards the country from Somalia and Ethiopia in November last year.

County Livestock executive Mohamed Shale said the county risks losing extensive pasture if the locust spread is not contained. He spoke to the press at Agricultural Training Centre (ATC) in Garissa town after meeting with the coordinating unit from the national and county governments. The unit monitors the locust movement.

The county response team comprises county officials, the office of the county commissioner, the National Drought Management Authority and the Kenya Red Cross Society.

Shale said death reports from the affected areas only "serve to make an already bad situation worse". The meat of the affected animals is yellow-green in colour, a situation that alarmed herders...