Brucellosis Devastates Cattle Population in Belarus. "We Will Have Nothing to Eat"

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Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has issued a stark warning of a possible major food crisis amid the accelerating decline of the livestock sector. At an emergency meeting on agriculture, the leader in Minsk expressed deep dissatisfaction with the situation on farms and called for immediate measures to avoid a collapse in food supplies. “If the death of cattle continues as it is now, we will end up with nothing to eat!” Lukashenko said i…

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Belarus is struggling with the largest cattle plague in history. Alexander Lukashenko has stated that calves from regions where they are dying in large numbers should be sold to "healthy" farms. In the first four months of this year alone, 52,000 cattle died. Independent media suggest that a very dangerous animal disease — brucellosis — may be responsible for the plague.