About 100 goats died and several hundreds were attacked with the disease in last 10 days, local people said

District livestock officer Dr Sekandar Ali said the disease has spread in some villages of the upazila after their distribution by an NGO named Bangladesh Rural Improvement Foundation (BRIF), based at Goaldihi village in Dinajpur. The goats were sick and PPR infected, Dr Sekandar said.

On contact, BRIF team leader Shuhan Hossain said before distribution the goats were vaccinated to prevent from PPR disease, but the vaccine proved to be ineffective, he said.

On contact, BRIF executive director Shah Ahsan Habib said we are yet to confirm whether the goats died of PPR disease or not. We have already sent dead bodies of goats to the Livestock Department of Bangladesh Agricultural University (DAU) in Mymensingh for examination.

On contact, Dimla upazila veterinary surgeon Dr Abdus Sobhan said the deadly disease broke out a month ago. The disease can be called 'plague' of goats. He said in most cases the disease is not curable. 'But it can be prevented through vaccination', he said.