Saturday, January 24, 2009

Kuqa County of Xinjiang occurred in foot-and-mouth outbreak

http://internal.dbw.cn/ 2009-01-24 07:22:34
Ministry of Agriculture Web site January 24 reported January 14, Kuqa County, Aksu Prefecture, Interstate Highway 28 mesa animal health supervision and inspection of standing routine inspection found that the state from the Yili Yining County Jiashi County, Kashi Prefecture transported to the 34 cattle in a cow suspected of foot and mouth disease symptoms appear. January 21, by the National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory confirmed the outbreak of foot and mouth disease type Ⅰ Asia.

Ministry of Agriculture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government in accordance with the relevant contingency plans in a timely manner the disposal of the work of organizations do a good job in the outbreak of the epidemic areas to implement the blockade and disinfection measures, 34 of the first diseased cow and cattle with the group have all been culled and so innocuous treatment of infected areas, threatened all animals susceptible to implement an emergency immunization. At present, the epidemic has been effectively controlled.

Issued by: Information Office of the Ministry of Agriculture

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