Bulgaria: The BFSA once again explains that it is impossible to pay for diseases outside the immunoprophylaxis list

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) has refuted claims of rare diseases such as sheep plague and Medi-Visna at a farm in Sigman, Bulgaria, stating that all tests came back negative. The agency urges the farm owner to test for Medi-Visna, an disease not commonly found in Bulgaria, and emphasizes that animals infected are not eligible for compensation. The BFSA is encouraging cooperation for accurate diagnosis and is reminding livestock breeders to ensure the health status of their animals by purchasing only animals with a health certification and proof of necessary vaccinations.

In response to the protests organized by the sheep farm in Burgas, whose herd was decimated by a rare disease, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) has once again explained how the state cannot pay compensation for infections that are not subject to prevention and control. In a letter to the media, the agency reported the following: “Information disseminated in the public domain about proven cases of sheep plague in the Karnobati village of Sigman and the requests for the inclusion of the new disease “Medi-Visna” in the list of diseases subject to prevention and control in the country, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) states that the samples for FMD, sheep and goat pox and small ruminant plague taken from the farm in the Burgas village of Sigman are negative. The results confirm that the farm does not have these particularly dangerous infectious diseases. The widespread claims of plague in small ruminants on the farm in the village of Sigman are manipulative. The animals ...