A series of reports on foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea
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Last Update: 2002-06-26
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Lead: Seoul, June 25 (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday it would once again increase the number of livestock slaughtered (destroyed) in the affected area in order to completely eliminate the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since the beginning of May On Monday, three more pigs were confirmed to have foot-and-mouth disease on a farm in Ancheng, and authorities have destroyed 6322 livestock, mainly pigs and cattle, on the farm and its surrounding areas In this way, South Korea destroyed nearly 134 thousand livestock in the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease "Considering that the epidemic is coming to an end, we decided to expand the slaughtering area rather than inject vaccine," Lee Joo Ho, head of the outbreak emergency team set up by the Ministry of agriculture, said by telephone Under the new slaughter plan, the authorities will destroy all livestock within 3.5 kilometers around the affected farm, Lee said "The number of pigs to be slaughtered this time may be around 20000, although it is impossible to estimate the exact number of pigs at present," he added In the early 2000 outbreak of FMD in South Korea, the authorities used vaccination to deal with the epidemic, only a small number of livestock were destroyed.
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