New FMD epidemic in South Korea
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Last Update: 2002-10-23
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: there is a new foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in two farms in an City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea According to media reports here, on the 18th and 19th, pigs died in the two farms According to the inspection of the National Veterinary Science and Quarantine Institute of South Korea, the dead pigs suffered from foot-and-mouth disease After the new outbreak, local epidemic prevention authorities decided to slaughter more than 1900 pigs raised by the two farms and blocked the roads to the two farms Animal foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been found successively since the beginning of may in anyeng, Gyeonggi, Longren and Zhenchuan, Hokkaido, Zhongqing, South Korea To this end, South Korea has slaughtered and buried more than 100000 local pigs, and disinfected the surrounding areas.
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