Friday, December 3, 2010

New FMD outbreak in South Korea

[1 December 2010]
A new foot-and-mouth outbreak has surfaced at two hog farms in North Gyeongsang, South Korea only two months after Korea was declared free of the disease. The two farms house 9,000 pigs. Movement of people and livestock in the area has been restricted by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. About 23,000 animals will be culled to prevent the disease from spreading. Farms within a 20-kilometer radius of the outbreak site will be banned from selling or removing livestock from the area.

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