N.Korea officially confirms foot and mouth outbreak

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Yonhap News Agency February 21, 2014 10:16am
N.Korea officially confirms foot and mouth outbreak


SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday confirmed an outbreak of food-and-mouth disease (FMD), which led to the culling of thousands of pigs, for the first time this year.

The animal disease broke out at a pig farm in a suburb of Pyongyang on January 8 and spread to 17 areas of Pyongyang and Junghwa County of North Hwanghae Province near Pyongyang, the (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a Korean-language report.

The outbreak is the first since April 2011...

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Re: N.Korea officially confirms foot and mouth outbreak

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Yonhap News Agency April 5, 2014 6:41am
N. Korea reports outbreak of FMD in cows

SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has reported a fresh outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in cattle to a world animal quarantine body, two months after reporting outbreak of the infectious disease in pigs, a U.S. radio report said Saturday.

The Voice of America (VOA) said that Pyongyang submitted a report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), saying that the disease broke out at a cow farm in Cholwon county of Kangwon Province, near the boarder area with South Korea, on March 14...