Tag: World Organisation for Animal Health

• Thursday, June 28th 2012 - 07:47 UTC

  FAO/OIE launch global strategy to eradicate foot and mouth disease world wide

  

  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are joining forces to combat foot-and-mouth disease on a global scale, laying out a detailed strategy to bring the devastating livestock disease under control.

• 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.

• 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.