Vasil Galstyan, the head of the Tavush regional center of the Food Security State Service, told us that the samples taken from the meat of an animal suspected of being contaminated with anthrax in the town of Ijevan had been sent to Yerevan. As of November 5 the results of laboratory examination are unknown.
V. Galstyan said that the situation was under their constant supervision; all the necessary measures were taken. We asked him about the quarantine station established on the road leading into mountains, near the southern entrance into the town of Ijevan. Galstyan said that no quarantine was instituted with regard to anthrax, that station was established to supervise the transportation of cattle and their meat from the mountains around Ijevan.
Last Friday, November 2, the head of the food security and veterinary inspection of the Ministry of Agriculture, came to the region of Tavush with around twenty experts. He got acquainted with the situation on the spot. In the cowhouse of Ijevan, where the animal suspected of anthrax was kept, another 3 cows and 3 calves are kept. They are in a normal condition right now, the temperature of those animals is stable and when cattle are contaminated with anthrax, they have high temperature.
However, the veterinary experts we asked think that it is strange that the Ministry of Agriculture laboratory hasn’t found out within three days, from Friday to Monday, whether there were anthrax bacteria in the meet of the animal slaughtered in Ijevan. Vasil Galstyan said that examination in the laboratory was quite thorough.
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