- FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters)
-- A mystery disease has killed more than 6,000 animals in Afghanistan's
northeastern province of Badakhshan in the past two weeks, an official
said on Sunday.
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- Authorities are waiting for test results, carried out
by foreign aid workers, to find the cause of the epidemic, said Engineer
Mohammad Hassan, chief of the agriculture and husbandry department of Badakhshan.
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- "It is a very strange type of disease, which locals
call animal plague," Hassan told Reuters in Faizabad, the provincial
capital of Badakhshan.
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- "So far more than 6,000 animals, largely goats,
sheep and cows, have perished as a result of the outbreak," he said.
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- Rugged Badakhshan lies near the border with China and
Tajikistan and a majority of its residents rely on agriculture.
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