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Bulgaria will rebuild the barb fence along the border with Turkey to stop foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) coming from that country, a senior official said here on Monday.
Yordan Voynov, director general of the National Veterinary Service, told a press conference Bulgaria would request funding from the European Union to restore the fence on the Turkish border to prevent entry of wild and domestic animals on Bulgarian territory.
The announcement came after a second FMD outbreak was reported in Bulgaria on Monday. It is located in the small village Rezovo, just on the border with Turkey, where all animals would be culled - - some 200 cows, pigs, sheep and goats, Voynov said.
The first FMD outbreak was reported last week in the village Kosti, 30 km northwest of Rezovo. All 500 animals there were already culled.
There are over 1,100 FMD outbreaks in Turkey, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said Sunday. The last case of FMD was found in Bulgaria in 1998.
Bulgaria and Turkey share a 259-km-long border. During the Cold War 143 km of barb fence were built to protect the then member of the Warsaw Pact Bulgaria from its NATO neighbor Turkey. Bulgaria joined NATO in 2004, and most of this fence was removed.
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