South Korea confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy farm, the agriculture ministry in Sejong said Monday.

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South Korea confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy farm, the agriculture ministry in Sejong said Monday.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said that 195 cows at the farm in Boeun, 180 kilometers southeast of Seoul, of North Chungcheong Province, tested positive for the animal disease.

Foot-and-mouth disease, which does not affect humans, is often fatal for cloven-hoofed animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs.

The ministry said it has taken measures to contain the suspected outbreak, including a ban on the movements by livestock and people near the farm.

South Korea reported its last outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on March 29 last year.

The country has been struggling with rapidly spreading avian influenza for nearly three months, with more than 30 million chickens and ducks culled. (Yonhap)</s>SEOUL: South Korea on Monday confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth at a dairy farm, the first discovery of the disease in the country in nearly a year.

It also said there was another suspected case at a different location, although that was yet to be confirmed.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement that the disease was unlikely to spread widely as it was one of three types of the illness that the nation inoculates against.

Nonetheless, the government said it would put in place a nationwide standstill order for farms with cloven-hoofed livestock and related transport for 30 hours from 0900 GMT on Monday.

The confirmation comes as Asia's fourth largest economy has been grappling with a nationwide spread of virulent bird flu virus, leading to the culling of over 30 million farm birds.

The agriculture ministry said in its statement on Monday that foot-and-mouth had been detected at a dairy farm in Boeun county, about 170 kilometers (106 miles) southeast of Seoul. All 195 cows raised on the farm had been culled to contain the disease.

It added that it was upping its foot-and-mouth alert to the second-highest level as another suspected case of the disease was reported on Monday at a cattle farm in the southeastern city of Jeongeup, according to the statement.

Foot-and-mouth was last discovered in the country at a hog farm in March 2016.

South Korea confirms foot-and-mouth disease at dairy farm was posted in Health of TheNews International - https://www.thenews.com.pk on February 06, 2017 and was last updated on February 06, 2017. This news story is related to Latest/184396-South-Korea-confirms-foot-and-mouth-disease-dairy-farm/ - breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne. Permanent link to the news story "South Korea confirms foot-and-mouth disease at dairy farm" is https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/184396-South-Korea-confirms-foot-and-mouth-disease-dairy-farm.</s>A health officer checks a cattle in a farm in Gimje, as a preventive measure against foot-and-mouth disease, after South Korea yesterday confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth at a dairy farm elsewhere in the country.

Seoul: South Korea on Monday confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth at a dairy farm, the first discovery of the disease in the country in nearly a year.

It also said there was another suspected case at a different location, although that was yet to be confirmed.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement that the disease was unlikely to spread widely as it was one of three types of the illness that the nation inoculates against.

Nonetheless, the government said it would put in place a nationwide standstill order for farms with cloven-hoofed livestock and related transport for 30 hours from 0900 GMT on Monday.

The confirmation comes as Asia’s fourth largest economy has been grappling with a nationwide spread of virulent bird flu virus, leading to the culling of over 30 million farm birds.

The agriculture ministry said in its statement on Monday that foot-and-mouth had been detected at a dairy farm in Boeun county, about 170 kilometres southeast of Seoul. All 195 cows raised on the farm had been culled to contain the disease.

It added that it was upping its foot-and-mouth alert to the second-highest level as another suspected case of the disease was reported on Monday at a cattle farm in the southeastern city of Jeongeup, according to the statement.

Foot-and-mouth was last discovered in the country at a hog farm in March 2016.</s>SEOUL (REUTERS) - South Korea confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy farm, the country's first outbreak in less than a year, its agriculture ministry said on Monday (Feb 6).

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement that the disease had been detected at a dairy farm in Boeun county, about 170km south-east of Seoul. All 195 cows raised in the farm had been culled to contain the disease.

The outbreak comes as Asia's fourth largest economy has been grappling with a nationwide spread of virulent bird flu virus since November last year, leading to cull nearly 33 million farm birds and raising the country's bird flu alert level to the highest for the first time.

This is not the first confirmation of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea. A case was discovered at a hog farm in South Chungcheong province in March last year, according to the statement.

The agriculture ministry said it has stepped up quarantine measures including a movement ban for farms within a 3 km-radius of where the disease had been found.

The ministry also said the disease was unlikely to be widespread as it was one of the three types that the country inoculates against.</s>South Korea confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy farm, the country's first outbreak less than a year, its agriculture ministry said on Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement that the disease had been detected at a dairy farm in Boeun county, about 170 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Reuters.</s>S.Korea to vaccinate all cattle against foot-and-mouth disease

South Korea now has to grapple with foot-and-mouth disease after its latest worst-ever bird flu epidemic. – Reuters picSEOUL, Feb 7 — South Korea’s agriculture ministry said today it will carry out a nationwide vaccination for cattle against foot-and-mouth disease by Thursday in an attempt to prevent further spread of the virus.

The first case of infection of foot-and-mouth in nearly a year was confirmed yesterday at a dairy farm. A second case was confirmed at a cattle farm later the same day, and 243 cattle on the two farms were culled.

South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, regularly inoculates its cattle and hogs against three types of foot-and-mouth diseases, and the ministry said a wider spread of the virus was unlikely with this outbreak as it was one of the three types the country typically vaccinates against.

However, as the outbreak comes amidst South Korea’s worst-ever bird flu epidemic, the agriculture ministry ordered a nationwide re-vaccination of livestock as an extra preventative measure to contain the virus, a ministry spokesman said.

The ministry also said in a statement on Monday that the two effected farms had not vaccinated their cattle properly.

The vaccination of all the country’s 3.14 million cattle is expected to cost about 5.3 billion won (RM20.5 million), the ministry statement said.

South Korea also imposed a temporary nationwide livestock movement control order for 30 hours, which will end at 1500 GMT today.

This is the third time for South Korea to see both bird flu and foot-and-mouth disease occurring simultaneously. — Reuters</s>– Prey Veng Province has reported an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease on the local cattle herd, affecting mainly buffaloes and cows.The provincial veterinary department sent a working team to Angkor Sor commune, Me San district, on February 4 to implement measures to stamp out the disease.Chen Vi Sal, head of the department, said the vets treated more than 40 affected animals and sprayed chemical at 150 households living close to the area where the disease started.The department also provided free of charge medicine to locals within a 3-kilometre radius from the site of the outbreak to prevent the disease from spreading.Prey Veng share a borderline with the Vietnamese provinces of Dong Thap, Long An and Tay Ninh./.</s>A sixth aquaculture farm has tested positive for the virus that causes white spot disease in prawns, and it has left industry concerned about successful eradication.

The positive test results came from a farm south of the Logan River in south east Queensland, but luckily it had finished harvesting its stock.

Since November, there have been four farmers with white spot incursions spread across five properties on the Logan River, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Now only one farm in the area has been left disease free.

Australian Prawn Farmers Association executive officer, Helen Jenkins, said that farmer was now the biggest concern.

"He has done some of his harvesting but the rest of his crop has been a bit too small to harvest so he was hoping to try and hang on for another couple of weeks.

"Industry is willing to try and help him and see what we can do to try and get one farm in that region through."

Biosecurity Queensland is in the process of draining ponds from the farms which have already been destocked but that process will take many months.

The Federal Government has already announced financial help for the south-east Queensland prawn farmers decimated by white spot disease [WSD], with $1.74 million to be divided up between the various stakeholders.

Ms Jenkins said to the north of the state, prawn farmers were watching the situation nervously.

"They are extremely nervous and I know they are ramping up their biosecurity protocols," she said.

"The farmers in the south did not like what happened of course … but to drive this prevalence down with this disease you have to you have to take the steps being taken."

In terms of biosecurity management, Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce and Biosecurity Queensland have both previously said they believe white spot disease could be successfully eradiated.

However, Helen Jenkins said she remained unsure.

"Everyone still believes eradication is possible… because of the vast number of environmental samples that have not shown white spot," she said.

"It is certainly a worrying sign that it has not gone away, we thought we were on top of it and had seen it eradicated but it is still lurking in the background."

The importation of green prawns into Australia was suspended following the initial outbreak of white spot disease in Queensland in November 2016.

It was the first time the disease, which kills prawns but is harmless to humans, was discovered in Australia.

While the Australian Prawn Farmers Association backs the ban, it would like to see current investigations into how the outbreak occurred in the first place expanded.

"The processes that have enabled this to happen need to be thoroughly investigated — thoroughly cleaned up — so that it never happens to us or any industry ever again," Ms Jenkins said.

Biosecurity Queensland has met with the prawn farmers impacted by white spot disease, along with key industry members and the white spot disease advisory panel.
South Korea's Agricultural Ministry confirms a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy farm in Boeun County. This is the first instance of this disease in the country since March 29, 2016.