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Kathmandu Thursday April 26, 2001 Baishakh 13, 2058.
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Humla DDC
against mutton consumption
Post Report
SIMIKOT, Humla, April 25 - The Humla District
Development Committee has issued public notices warning not to consume mutton until the
disease that claimed thousands of sheep and goat from this remote district is fully
brought under control.
DDC Chairman Jeevan Bahadur Shahi said that
the public notices were issued following the rumours that people had fallen sick due to
the consumption of infected mutton.
Dr Gauriman Shrestha at the District
Livestock Service Office,however, said although animal disease may not transmit to human
body, it is better to follow preventive measures before anyone becomes victim of the
disease.
None of the cases related with the disease
has so far been recorded in the District Health Office.
More than 2,000 sheep and goat died of the
disease called Pestes des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in the southern part of the district over
the last fortnight.
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