{"id":9972,"date":"2025-07-28T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:13:42","slug":"strange-disease-kills-15-goats-sheep-in-kagadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/07\/28\/strange-disease-kills-15-goats-sheep-in-kagadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Disease Kills 15 Goats, Sheep in Kagadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 15 goats have died by the fresh outbreak of the\u00a0Goat Plague\u00a0in Nyakarongo Sub-County Kagadi district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goat Plague is a viral disease related to the rinderpest of sheep as well as goats. It is characterized by fever, cough, very bad-smelling breath, diarrhoea and discharge from the eyes and nose, which can form a crust, making breathing difficult and forcing eyes shut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to scientists, most sheep and goats that show signs of the disease will die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Nyakarongo Sub-County, the goats started dying a week ago leaving many goat farmers stranded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The worst-hit areas include Bufundi, Bweema A and B in Kisungu parish where the outbreak began a week ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The farmers in the area are concerned over the massive death of the animal&#8217;s on which they had invested a lot of money, some of which was acquired from the Parish Development Modal program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, Lawrence Niwagaba, the Nyakarongo Sub-County veterinary officer has confirmed the outbreaks as\u00a0<strong>Goat Plague (Peste des petits ruminants),<\/strong>\u00a0that has killed animals in Greater Bwikara, Nyakarongo Sub-County inclusive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He blames farmers for not responding to the government calls of animal vaccination, adding that a few who manage to vaccinate their livestock use untrained personnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Niwagaba advises farmers to always vaccinate their animals with the help of trained veterinary doctors and take proactive, preventative measures to reduce the risk of animal diseases on their farms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says that the outbreak would be contained through a mass vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige More than 15 goats have died by the fresh outbreak of the\u00a0Goat Plague\u00a0in Nyakarongo Sub-County Kagadi district. Goat Plague is a viral disease related to the rinderpest of sheep as well as goats. It is characterized by fever, cough, very bad-smelling breath, diarrhoea and discharge from the eyes and nose, which can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bunyoro","7":"category-business","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9975,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}