Tag: FMD

• Monday, February 28th 2011 - 01:21 UTC

  Paraguay exported more beef than Argentina in 2010

  

  Paraguay overtook Argentina as beef exporter in 2010 confirming the country’s loss of leadership in the world’s meat markets, according to reports in the Argentine and Paraguayan media.

• Monday, February 14th 2011 - 23:54 UTC

  Former UK farmers’ leader calls for stricter foot and mouth disease controls

  

  A leading farmer form South West England has called for new measures to stop another outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the UK. Anthony Gibson, former regional director of the National Farmers Union, wants disinfectant footbaths for travellers arriving from problem areas.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 16:25 UTC

  Argentina recovers free of FMD status along the “border belt”

  

  Argentina recovered the status of free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination in the “high vigilance” area along the so called “border belt” which limits with Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 15:43 UTC

  As FMD ravages Korea, US beef and pork exports soar

  

  United States beef is enjoying a huge turnaround in Korea with exports making a sharp leap thanks to the devastating foot-and-mouth (FMD) outbreak in the Asian peninsula, according to industry data released this week.

• Friday, February 4th 2011 - 23:13 UTC

  Paraguay recovers full status of free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination

  

  Paraguay recovered full status of “country free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination” following the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) decision to lift the “high vigilance zone” over 1.2 million cattle.

• Monday, January 31st 2011 - 21:11 UTC

  Foot ad Mouth disease alert extended to East Asia; Korea outbreak worst in half a century

  

  FAO has called for veterinary and border control authorities in Asia to be on alert for animals showing signs of infection by Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), following an unprecedented outbreak of the livestock-affecting sickness in South Korea.

• Friday, January 28th 2011 - 19:19 UTC

  Foot and Mouth Worst Outbreak In South Korean History

  

  South Korea's farm minister has offered to step down over the worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the country's history.Almost three million cattle have so far been culled at a cost of $1.34bn (£841m) since the disease was first confirmed last November.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 12:25 UTC

  Korea resorts to vaccination to combat foot and mouth epidemic

  

  Overwhelmed by the rapid spread of foot and mouth disease FMD the South Korean government announced that it will vaccinate pigs, cows and all other cloven hoofed animals. The decision came after the highly contagious virus has turned into a nationwide epidemic, with livestock farms in the eastern province of Gangwon falling victim to the deadly disease.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2010 - 02:20 UTC

  South Korea reports outbreak of FMD; officials say 147.173 livestock destroyed

  

  South Korea reported on Monday a further case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the south-eastern part of the country, according to Seoul's Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 19:15 UTC

  Japan requests OIE free of FMD status; Korea de-listed resumes pork exports

  

  Japan formally requested the World Organization for Animal health, OIE, to declare the country free of foot and mouth disease do it can resume beef exports. Japan suffered an outbreak of FMD which forced the termination of 289.000 livestock.