Goats would bleat, spin in circles and die

Samuel Loipanya, a livestock farmer in West Pokot County, was distressed when his herd began dying from a strange disease. The livelihood of his family was threatened and the symptoms were even stranger: Goats would start bleating and spinning in circles.

They would lose appetite and get weaker each day as he watched helplessly. They would eventually die. He lost a goat a month. And the rest of the herd was weak and sickly too.