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South Korea reports first foot-and-mouth disease case in nearly two years
The case, the first in the country since May 2023, was reported in a cattle farm in the southwestern Jeollanam-do province, the ministry said in a statement, adding that about 180 cattle in the farm would be culled.
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Cattle rest and eat in their enclosure at the Westons Farm, in Itchingfield, south England, on March 28, 2022. Hungry cows at Westons Farm jostle for position at the feeding trough, blissfully unaware that Ukraine's war has sowed more turmoil for UK farms ploughing through COVID-19 and Brexit fallout. Farms like Westons have therefore become more and more reliant on animal slurry to grow crops and cut costs. (AFP/Daniel Leal)
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outh Korea has confirmed a foot-and-mouth disease case in a cattle farm, the first such outbreak in nearly two years, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.
The case, the first in the country since May 2023, was reported in a cattle farm in the southwestern Jeollanam-do province, the ministry said in a statement, adding that about 180 cattle in the farm would be culled.
The government has since raised the alert, stepping up disinfecting efforts in the region, according to the ministry.
Foot-and-mouth disease causes fever and mouth blisters in cloven-hoofed ruminants such as cattle, swine, sheep and goats.
Last week, Hungary detected its first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in over 50 years, at a cattle farm near the Slovak border, the national food safety agency said.
In January, Germany reported FMD cases in a Berlin water buffalo farm, the first outbreak in the European Union since 2011, prompting several countries to stop German meat imports.
Hungary's National Food Chain Safety Office said the country's FMD case was located in Kisbajcs, a northwestern town right next to Slovakia.
"A farm with 1,400 cattle showed the classic symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease in early March," it said in a statement.
After laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the pathogen, Hungary's Chief Veterinary Officer ordered the farm's closure, the culling of its stock and an epidemiological investigation.
"In order to prevent the further spread of the disease, extremely strict official measures are in place, including a ban on the movement of susceptible species and their products," the statement added.
In a previous outbreak in Europe, more than 2,000 animals were culled to control the disease in the UK after a spate of cases in 2007, according to the British government.
In 2011, hundreds of animals were culled in Bulgaria after an outbreak there.
