Babken Pipoyan, the spokesperson for the State Food Security Service head, informed us that the laboratory examination results of samples taken from the cow that had died in the mountains 7km away from the town of Ijevan on October 30 had confirmed that the animal had died of anthrax. The laboratory examination results of the meat samples of a buffalo that died on the same territory will be known on November 7.
A checkpoint was established in the suburbs of the town of Ijevan, where veterinarians, along with the police, control the movement of cattle and their meat. Mr. Pipoyan said that the cow and the buffalo that had died had not been vaccinated against anthrax.
At the instruction of Hovhannes Mkrtchyan, the head of the State Veterinary Inspection, the cattle in the communities of the region of Tavush are recounted and revaccinated now. The checks have revealed that many cattle have been out of cattle’s vaccination process at a government order. The checks of the inspection are carried out through checking documentation and quizzing cattle-breeders. B. Pipoyan said that recounting and revaccinating cattle was not a function of the State Food Inspection, however the problems that had arisen had to be solved quickly.
“Before looking for and punishing the guilty, we must quickly eliminate the threat, then draw conclusions,” Babken Pipoyan, the spokesperson for the State Food Security Service head, said.
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