Tag: foot-and-mouth disease

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 - 05:13 UTC

  Southern states of Brazil free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination

  

  Four additional Brazilian states have been recognized as free of foot-and-mouth disease without the need for vaccinations, by the World Organization for Animal Health, OIE.

• Friday, November 8th 2013 - 05:38 UTC

  OIE restores Paraguay free of FMD with vaccination status

  

  The World Organization for Animal Health, OIE restored Paraguay with the status of free of foot and mouth disease, FMD, with vaccination, a condition it had lost back in September 2011. The news was confirmed in Asunción by Paraguay's Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Jorge Gattini

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:34 UTC

  Mass culling of farm animals when outbreak of FMD ‘unnecessary’ say scientists

  

  The mass cull of farm animals to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, FMD, may be unnecessary if there is a new outbreak, scientists suggest. A new analysis of disease transmission suggests that future outbreaks might be controlled by early detection and killing only affected animals.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 01:51 UTC

  FAO Urges Heightened International Surveillance Against Foot and Mouth Disease

  

  FAO urged heightened international surveillance against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) following three recent incursions in Japan and South Korea.

• Thursday, April 29th 2010 - 07:28 UTC

  Outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Japan Includes Cows and Pigs

  

  Japan has discovered suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs at a farm in Miyazaki prefecture, where the government confirmed the first outbreak since 2000 in cows last week.