South Korea says it has controlled foot-and-mouth disease
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Last Update: 2002-06-01
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: South Korean Ministry of agriculture and forestry officials announced on May 30 in Seoul that foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea has been controlled At the beginning of the football World Cup, the quarantine official of the Ministry of agriculture and forestry of South Korea said that 11000 livestock were slaughtered in the country from May 2 to 19, "no new FMD epidemic has been found in the past 10 days", "we believe that the disease is definitely under control now" On March 3, foot-and-mouth disease of livestock was found in the urban area of Gyeonggi dao'an, South Korea On November 11, South Korea's Ministry of agriculture and forestry confirmed once again that a new FMD epidemic had been found in the Longren area of Gyeonggi do Therefore, on May 11, the Ministry of agriculture and forestry of South Korea requested that the farms and villages of 10 cities and counties in Gyeonggi Dao, North Zhongqing Dao and South Zhongqing Dao should be disinfected twice a week within 50-60 kilometers from the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic area At the same time, these cities and counties should take emergency epidemic prevention measures to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
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