Russia’s Agriculture Ministry has said it has banned imports of cattle, animal products and animal feed from Peru due to concerns over foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the country.
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The ministry also said Russia has banned imports of cattle and sheep, as well as their meat and meat products, from two Spanish provinces – Andalucia and Extremadura – due to an outbreak of the bluetongue virus, reported Reuters.
The EU announced in mid-October that it had restricted exports of cattle and sheep from some southern Spanish provinces after detecting bluetongue virus in a number of sentinel cattle in the Municipality of Jimena de la Frontera in the Province of Cadiz, on 13 October.
Bluetongue is an easy-spreading viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants transmitted by insects. It is not known to affect humans.
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