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As of the latest data, 27 new cases of sheep and goat pox were identified in the past week up until Friday, October 25, according to sources from the Ministry of Rural Development.

Concerned about the rise in the price of lamb and goat meet, the Ministry of Development has conducted two inspections at the wholesale meat market, on Wednesday and Thursday. 

Officials say the extent of a disease that has hit sheep and goats, and the number of diseased animals put down as a result, is fairly limited and should not lead to such price hikes.

The plague sweeping through Greece's sheep and goats shows that some people were too hasty in replacing the capital lost in last year's disastrous floods.

Such haste is understandable, but when there's no plan and rules, the recovery will be precarious, as is the case now.

In response to new cases of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) detected outside Thessaly in central Greece, authorities have imposed a nationwide ban on the movement of goats and sheep for breeding, fattening and slaughter.

Over the weekend, a fresh outbreak was confirmed at a livestock unit in Mesino, within the Corinthia regional unit.

Türkiye's total red meat production increased by 12.3 percent in 2022 from the previous year to 2.2 million tons, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has said.

Cattle meat production was 1.57 million tons, a 7.7 percent rise from 2021, while the increase in sheep meat production was 27 percent to 489,000 tons.

The farmers may have raised sheep or goats

A baby goat that was born in massive flames in Turkey's southern Antalya province has been named "Miracle."

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Sercan Bayat returned to his farm hours after he was evacuated because of forest fires to find a baby goat among perished farm animals in the burned woodland in Manavgat district.

He said fires reached his village right after they began.

A 1944 dark comedy classic, "Arsenic and Old Lace" puts a spin on Hollywood humor. The genre-bending film, directed by Henry Capra, will be projected at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's (SNFCC) Great Lawn as part of its popular Park Your Cinema initiative.

Wild goat species bezoar ibex, which was observed in a southeastern Turkish town for the first time in a century, has been killed by poachers.

Bones that have been identified as human and may date to World War II were discovered on Sunday by a walking group on the islet of Aghios Theodoros off the coast of Hania in Crete.