Tuesday, November 22, 2011

South Korea warns of new FMD case

South Korea warns of new FMD case
[22 November 2011] South Korea has reported a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at a farm in Cheongsong. The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said that 16 pigs at the farm showed symptoms and government officials are conducting quarantine inspections at the site
. If confirmed, it will be the first outbreak of FMD in seven months after the latest case occurred at a pig farm in Yeongcheon on April 20 this year. South Korea was forced to kill about 3.5 million livestock, mostly cow and pigs, last winter because of the country's severest outbreak of FMD   . http://www.asian-agribiz.com/display.aspx?PageID=0&MemberID=0&screenheight=768&screenwidth=1366#

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