Lesvos farmers disrupt ferry sailing amid foot-and-mouth epidemic

Farmers connected the eastbound Aegean Sea land of Lesvos, who are struggling to header with a deadly livestock disease, connected Tuesday prevented hundreds of travelers from boarding an outward-bound ferry to protestation the government’s handling of the epidemic.

State ERT television reported that farmers blockaded the entranceway to the larboard of Mylilini, allowing lone conscripts serving their obligatory subject work and radical traveling for wellness reasons to participate a vessel heading for Chios and Piraeus.

As a result, astir 100 radical got connected the ferry, while different 700, with 110 vehicles and 30 motorcycles were kept ashore.

Lesvos is the halfway of a foot-and-mouth illness epidemic that broke retired successful mid-March and has resulted successful a strict programme of culling and bans connected the export of workplace animals and dairy products, arsenic authorities try to stop the illness from spreading.

Foot-and-mouth is deadly to livestock but does not impact humans.