Under Bulgarian and EU regulations, the sheep must be put down to stop the spread of the disease. The disease is not dangerous to humans, even if they have eaten meat from an infected animal.

A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under metres of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption of Mount ...

An ancient ancestor of the pathogen that would later cause the Black Death and other major pandemics has been identified in a Bronze Age domestic sheep in Russia – making it one of the oldest ...

Signs of skull modification seen on ancient sheep skull dated to around 3,700 BC (Wim Van Neer et al., Journal of Archaeological Science (2024)) ...