MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) – Russian officials imposed a cattle quarantine in an area of the Chuvash region in the Volga, more than 2,500 km (1,500 miles) west of the Siberian Novosibirsk region where a state of emergency was declared over a cattle disease, Interfax news agency reported.
In the Novosibirsk region, the forced culling of cattle triggered protests by some small farmers. Officials said they had identified outbreaks of pasteurellosis in Novosibirsk.
Now, the bacterial infection has been identified in the Batyrevsky area of the Chuvash region, Interfax quoted a source inside the local agricultural ministry as saying.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Jamie Freed)
