MISCELLANEOUS VETERINARY INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Veterinary Information
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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Veterinary Stations
1. The M.iiiistry of Agriculture has a Veterinary Department which is responsible for
all veterinary stations and institutions. The veterinary service., which previously
was subordinate to the Veterinary Department, is now attached to the local and
district councils, The head of the Department is also a member of the Veterinary
Council, the highest veterinary institution in Bulgaria,
2. The district veterinary station at Ruse is located at No. 5,, Odrii Street;,. It has
a department for the inspection, of meat, m-k, and dairy products, and a bacterio-
logical research department which investigates contagious diseases in the district;
a department for artificial is planned. The staff of the station
consists of three veterinary surgeons, six laboratory assistants, and six technical
employees.
3. Veterinary stations of this type have been set up in all district towns. An addi-
tional-300 district stations have been established for the treatment of domestic
animals.
. There are breeding stations for pedigreed cattle at Pleven, S himen, and Bozh 'shte.
At Bozh.rishte, there is also a stud farm where Arab and English horses are bred,
as"well as a breed known as Nonius. Astrakhan sheep have been bred at Ruse since
19119.
Veterinary and Bacteriological Research Institutes
A Central Veterinary and Bacteriological Research Institute is located in Sofia,
6. A Serum and Vaccine Institute is located in the Nadezhda quarter of Sofia. In
addition to the cultures, produced by the Institute, there are s till large supplies
of Swiss and German drugs available, _ Penicillin is imported from the Soviet Union.
is suitable of pfor external 9 use only., ans active for a maximum of three days,
and which o q y
is produced in Bulgaria.
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Diseases
The following widespread contagious diseases have been reported:
a. Bacteriological tests show an average incidence of two cases of anthrax per
c. Since 1942, the authorities have been fighting fowl pest and fowl cholera with
vaccines and by administrative measures (sic); and
d. In 1951, febris aphthosa (hoof and mouth disease), allegedly brought in from
Greece, caused great damage to the cattle in the southern part of Bulgaria;
the veterinary service and many peasants have been mobilized to fight the
disease.
day in the Ruse distript; inoculation is the only treatment used;
In 1950s two epidemics,, erysypelas and swine fevers caused great losses among
pigs; the diseases were allegedly brought in from Rumania;
Veterinary Education
8. The veterinary department of the Agricultural Academy in Sofia, the only institu-
tion of higher learning to give instruction in veterinary surgery in Bulgaria,
has facilities for 600 students. The courae'lasts five-years. In 1951, a group
of 120 students was graduated, bringing the total"of veterinary surgeons in Bul-
garia to approximately 1,320? It is the intention of the government to have a
veterinary surgeon in every'village and- collective ' farm. Upon graduation., veter-
inary surgeons receive appointments as reserve officers in the Armed Forces.
9. A 2-year course in veterinary sciences is offered at a secondary school in Lovech.
10. There is no exchange of veterinary surgeons between the USSR and the other Peoplets
Democracies and Bulgarias, although occasionally individual veterinary surgeons
visit the Soviet Union for postgraduate studies. Soviet experts sometimes visit
Bulgaria and lecture to the veterinary sex ice; on one occasion Skriabin, a dis-
tinguished parasitologist, came to lecture.
Personalities
11. Informant identified the following personalities:
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culture, about to resign]
b. Baran Naehev,d professor at the Veterinary Department in Sofia, an outstanding
expert on pathology
d. Chencheev (fnu), head of the Centeral Veterinary and Bacteriological Institute;
e. Markov (Aiu), professor at the General Medical Department, a distinguished
bacteriologist, a veterinary surgeon by profession; and
f. Nikolov (:dun), professor of therapeaatis at:`the General Medici. Department.
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25X1 c. Zenofon Ivanov, professor at the Veterinary Department in Sofia, an outstanding