South Korea reports outbreak of foot and mouth disease

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SKorea reports outbreak of foot and mouth disease
Associated Press, 01.07.10, 07:21 AM EST

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea reported its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in eight years on Thursday, prompting quarantine officials to slaughter animals to stop its spread, officials said.

Six dairy cows at a farm in Pocheon, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of Seoul, tested positive, Agriculture Ministry official Lee Chang-buhm told reporters.

Later Thursday, quarantine workers began slaughtering all of the 185 dairy cows at the farm to stem the spread of the disease, according to another ministry official, Kim Dae-gyun.

Lee said quarantine workers plan to slaughter 1,500 pigs, 346 dairy cows and several dozens of deer and goats within a 500-yard (500-meter) radius of the site of the outbreak.

The government imposed restrictions on the movement of the animals and disinfected the area within six-mile (10-kilometer) radius of the outbreak site, Lee added.

Foot-and-mouth disease is often is fatal for cloven-hoofed animals including cows, sheep, pigs and goats, causing blisters on the mouth and feet. It does not affect humans.

Authorities act quickly to stop its spread because outbreaks often prompt governments to ban meat imports from the affected country.

The disease last hit South Korea in 2002 when some 160,000 pigs either died of the disease or were slaughtered to prevent its spread.

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2010/01/14 08:30 KST
S. Korea confirms 2nd outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease


SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- The government on Thursday said it has confirmed its second foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak at a meat cattle farm in Pocheon, 45 kilometers north of Seoul.

The animals at the farm started showing FMD symptoms early Wednesday causing local quarantine officials to order the culling and burial of 15 heads of hanwoo meat cows, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said.

The animals were at a farm 3.5 kilometers away from where the first outbreak was reported last week.

The ministry added that it will start culling livestock within a 500 meter radius of the cattle farm to prevent further outbreaks of the highly contagious disease.

There are a total of five farms that raise 148 head of cattle and two deer within the quarantine area and a farm that raises 1,200 pigs.

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S. Korea confirms fifth outbreak of FMD amid fears of further spread: media
English.news.cn 2010-01-19 09:58:52

SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- South Korea confirmed on Tuesday the fifth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at a beef cattle farm north of capital Seoul, local media reported.

The latest in a series of outbreaks since early January, the outbreak occurred at a farm located about 10 kilometers away from where the first outbreak was reported, causing fears that the highly contagious disease might further spread and dampen the country's dairy exports, local media said.

Quarantine authorities have begun culling 63 heads of livestock within the 500-meter radius of the farm, while looking into the source of infection, according to local media.

The latest infection comes after the country pledged stricter quarantine measures to stem further contamination, with the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries planning to restrict access of animals and humans to the contaminated area, especially within three-kilometer radius of the farms where the disease was reported.

Livestock suspected of infection would be immediately banned from moving and could be culled before closer examination if deemed necessary, the ministry recently said.

The foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease that can affect cloven-hoofed animals, including pigs, sheep and goats, while humans are hardly affected by the virus.

The first outbreak in eight years occurred on Jan. 7 in a local cattle farm located in Pochen, Gyeonggi Province, about 45 kilometers north of Seoul.

The country previously suffered such outbreaks in 2000 and 2002, which caused a fall in dairy exports.

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S Korea confirms sixth outbreak of FMD: media
English.news.cn 2010-01-30 19:57:26


SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- South Korea confirmed on Saturday the sixth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in a local cattle farm north of Seoul, local media reported.

The farm, located in Pochen in Gyeonggi Province, about 45 kilometers north of Seoul, is about 3.8 kilometers away from where the first outbreak was reported on Jan. 7, South Korea's Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said.

The animals in the farm reported blisters on Friday, the ministry added.

Quarantine authorities decided to cull all 81 heads of dairy cattle in the farm, and also plan to kill and bury livestock within a 500-meter radius of the farm to prevent further spread of the highly infectious virus.

The fifth outbreak of the FMD also reported in Pochen region on Tuesday, and 63 heads of livestock within the 500-meter radius of the outbreak site were culled.

The country has pledged stricter quarantine measures to stem further contamination, with the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries planning to restrict access of animals and humans to the contaminated area, especially within three-kilometer radius of the farms where the disease was reported.

Livestock suspected of infection would be immediately banned from moving and could be culled before closer examination if deemed necessary, the ministry recently said.

The foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease that can affect cloven-hoofed animals, including pigs, sheep and goats, while humans are hardly affected by the virus.

The first outbreak in eight years occurred on Jan. 7 in a local cattle farm located in Pochen.

The country previously suffered such outbreaks in 2000 and 2002, which caused a fall in dairy exports.

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General News South Korea Declares Country Free Of Foot-and-mouth Disease
3/23/2010 9:00 AM ET

(RTTNews) - South Korean authorities have claimed that they have eradicated foot-and-mouth disease two and a half months after its latest outbreak in the country.

South Korea's Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Tuesday that it had contained the first outbreak of the disease in the country in eight years, which was confirmed on January 7...

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S. Korea Reports New Foot-And-Mouth Disease Outbreak (Update1)
April 08, 2010, 8:41 PM EDT

(Adds damages from earlier outbreak in fourth paragraph.)

By Sungwoo Park

April 9 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea said it has discovered a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, less than a month after the nation declared itself free of the disease.

The disease was discovered in cattle at a farm in Ganghwa, 58 kilometers (36 miles) west of the capital Seoul, the nation?s agricultural ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. The government destroyed about 200 animals at the farm, limited traffic and carried out disinfection around the area, it said...

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Apr 9, 2010

S.Korea kills cows, pigs
SEOUL - SOUTH Korea is slaughtering more than 2,500 cows and pigs after foot-and-mouth disease was detected at a farm.

Agriculture Ministry official Lee Sang Soo said nine cows at a farm in Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, tested positive for the disease on Saturday.

Mr Lee said quarantine workers are killing 384 cows and 2,200 pigs near the outbreak site as a precaution.
South Korea has slaughtered more than 5,900 animals since January when the country's first outbreak of the disease in eight years was reported.

Foot-and-mouth disease is often fatal for cloven-hoofed animals including cows, sheep, pigs and goats, causing blisters on the mouth and feet. It does not affect humans. -- AP

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S. Korea confirms two more outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease


SEOUL, April 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's agriculture ministry said Saturday that it has confirmed two more foot-and-mouth outbreaks on Ganghwa Island, 58 kilometers west of Seoul.

The cattle and pig farms are located within 3.5km of the site where another outbreak was reported early Friday, according to the ministry...

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04-20-2010 19:27
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spreads Farther Inland

By Cho Jae-hyon
Staff Reporter

A sixth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed at a dairy farm in Gimpo, about 50 kilometers west of Seoul, raising concerns that the contagious disease might spread further inland, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Tuesday.

One of the 120 cattle on the farm developed blisters on its udders and was confirmed to have been infected with the disease that affects all cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs and deer.

"We received a report on a suspected case from a dairy farm in Wolgot, Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, Monday, and the diary cow tested positive for the disease Tuesday," a ministry official said.

This is the first outbreak outside of Ganghwa Island on the west coast, where five cases were confirmed on April 9 and 10. The dairy farm is located 5.3 kilometers east of the island...

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04-22-2010 18:35
Foot and Mouth Disease Spreads Across Nation

By Lee Hyo-sik
Staff Reporter

Foot-and-mouth disease appears to be spreading further inland after a new outbreak was confirmed Thursday at a dairy farm in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, raising concerns that the highly contagious disease will wreak havoc on the nation's livestock industry.

In response, the government has raised its disease crisis alert to the highest level, vowing to take all possible measures to contain the spread of the disease.

``We received a report on a suspected case from a hog farm in Shinni, Chungju, Wednesday, and the pigs tested positive for the disease Thursday,'' the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said.

The farm, 147 kilometers southeast of Seoul, was breeding 1,000 pigs, with some animals showing symptoms such as blisters and scabs on the teats and tongue Wednesday, prompting quarantine officials to seal off the farm and limit the movement of people and vehicles as a precautionary measure.

This is the second outbreak outside Ganghwa Island on the west coast, where five cases were confirmed on April 9 and 10. On April 20, one of the 120 cattle on a farm in Gimpo, about 50 kilometers west of Seoul, developed blisters on its udders and was confirmed to have been infected with the disease that affects all cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs and deer...

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Emergency foot and mouth disease spread to the highest levels of Chungju alarm ... </TD></TR><TR><TD height=5><SPACER type="block" height="5"></TD></TR><TR><TD height=5><SPACER type="block" height="5"></TD></TR><TR><TD style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; WORD-BREAK: break-all" vAlign=top align=left><!-- ad --><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 align=right><TBODY><TR><TD><!-- 타겟 광고 2 시작 //--><!--OAS Cateory AD 시작 290*180 Middle--><!--AD 끝--></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- ad --> Foot and Mouth Disease spread rapidly throughout the country caused the government with regard to foot and mouth crisis, raised the alert level at the top in fact.

Earlier this month, followed by Kimpo enhance foot and mouth disease occurred in the inland has been extended to central, Chungju.

Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Food and pig farms sinnimyeon Chungju, Chungbuk 22 days and receive reports from the suspected staging a result of foot and mouth disease epidemiological investigation and precision tests positive, he said.
So far, the strengthened six farms where foot and mouth disease occurred, Gimpo a place, a place of Chungju and increased to eight place.

이로 인해 정부 대응도 바빠졌다.

Because of this, the government response has been busy too.

정부는 이날 구제역 위기경보 수준을 최상위인 `심각(Red)`에 준하는 단계로 높였다.

The day Foot and Mouth crisis, the government ranked highest alert level 'critical (Red) `raised to the equivalent stage.
Hayoungje nongsikpumbu two loans is "the type of crisis, ultimately the alarm phase 'boundaries (Orange)` keep up, but the actual response phase is equivalent to `serious' poised," he said.
In 2004, after the introduction of foot and mouth crisis, in fact seriously alarms in the early stages it is the first level.
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Foot-and-mouth disease spreads across S. Korea

<TABLE style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; FLOAT: right" border=0 width=190><TBODY><TR><TD align=right><SCRIPT language=JavaScript>google_ad_client = "pub-1728051424180693";google_ad_slot = "5439709301";google_ad_width = 180;google_ad_height = 150;</SCRIPT><SCRIPT type=text/javascript src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/expansion_embed.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/test_domain.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/render_ads.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>google_protectAndRun("render_ads.js ::google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);</SCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>SEOUL, April 22 (Yonhap) -- Cases of a highly contagious animal disease are spreading across South Korea, prompting the country to take its most stringent countermeasures to date, the government said Thursday.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said it confirmed the seventh and eighth cases of foot-and-mouth disease this month at a pig farm in the country's interior and at a small cattle and goat farm west of Seoul.<!--BodyFile0Start--> <TABLE align=center><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap align=middle></TD><TR><TD style="LINE-HEIGHT: 130%; COLOR: #616588; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; WORD-BREAK: break-all; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" align=left></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!--BodyFile0End-->
Foot-and-mouth disease affects all cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs, deer and goats, and is classified as a "List A" disease by the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health.

"The country's crisis alert status will be maintained at the current orange level, the second-highest of four stages, but all countermeasures will be on par with the most serious 'red' alert level," said Ha Young-je, vice farm minister. This is effectively the highest-level response taken by Seoul for any type of animal disease outbreak, he added.

South Korea previously reported cases of foot-and-mouth in 2000 and 2002, and in the first month of this year.

Ha said Agriculture Minister Chang Tae-pyong will personally head a government team to respond to the outbreak, and that all regional administrations at the county and ward level will set up special quarantine task forces.

"Heads of regional task forces are to be headed by governors, mayors and county chiefs who will report directly to the farm minister," he said.

The vice minister said that at current level, the government is not considering vaccinating animals, which it did in 2000, because that could make it difficult for the country to regain its foot-and-mouth disease "clear" status. Getting the all-clear is required under international regulations for a country to export meat from cloven-hoofed animals.

Some 10 pigs out of 1,000 animals at the farm in Chungju, about 150 kilometers from Seoul, started showing symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease late Wednesday.
The Chungju outbreak marks the first time this year that the disease has been reported in the South Korean central province of North Chungcheong and is a sign that the virus has spread beyond the Gyeonggi region in the country's northwest.

All previous cases reported this month occurred on Ganghwa Island, 60km west of Seoul, and one in Gimpo on the outskirts of the capital city.

The Ganghwa cattle and goat farm raises 25 animals, and veterinarians who visited the site said they observed profuse salivation and nose scabs among many of them. The farm is located 6.5km south of where the first outbreak was confirmed on April 9.

Ha stressed that officials are trying to determine the extent of the contamination at the Chungju pig farm, since the region is an import hub.

Other working-level officials said that the two recent outbreaks could be connected because both have business ties with livestock companies in Icheon and Cheongwon that sell mother pigs and animal sperm.

Foot-and-mouth disease virus can survive on clothes and shoes for up to 60 days if conditions are favorable, but the incubation period once it gets inside animals is about two weeks.

"There is a high probability that humans may have contributed to the spread of the outbreak, although further analysis is needed," a government veterinarian said. He added that officials are currently screening all farms that have business dealings with the two livestock companies and beefing up decontamination at these locations.

"Luckily tests on the pigs only picked up virus antigens and not antibodies, indicating that they have been exposed for only a few days and may not have spread the disease," the expert said, warning however that warm weather may be helping the spread of the animal virus.

At present there has been no fallout in meat prices in the country because the number of animals destroyed is relatively small. There are currently over 9.6 million pigs being raised in the country.

Frontline quarantine officials in cooperation with police and the military have started culling more than 12,700 animals on the two farms and about 100 other farms in the immediate vicinity to prevent further outbreaks of the disease and set up roadblocks farther out to control the movement of livestock at nearby farms and decontaminate vehicles.

Officials will also set a 3km "danger zone" around the Chunju farm, beyond the standard 500 meters, and all livestock within the zone will be destroyed as a preventative step. Pigs are known to spread the foot-and-mouth virus faster than cattle.

A third suspected case on Ganghwa checked by government officials tested negative for the foot-and-mouth virus.

The Prime Minister's Office, meanwhile, issued a statement calling on farmers and ordinary people to cooperate with quarantine restrictions imposed so as to speed up the eradication of the animal disease.

It urged livestock farmers to redoubled their monitoring and decontamination effort pledging compensation based on market prices and emergency relief funds. The office asked farmers not to visit countries that have reported foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks this year such as China, Vietnam and Japan.

"Half of compensation money will be given out as quickly as possible, while farmers wanting to buy new animals to replace losses can receive very low interest loans with a grace period of two years for all purchases," it said.

The government said it has ordered the culling of 48,749 animals for the whole of this year, larger than the number of livestock that were destroyed in the two previous outbreaks. In the 2000 outbreak, 2,216 animals were destroyed, and in the outbreak two years later 5,956 livestock were culled.

A continued spread of the disease across the country threatens the local livestock industry and could put a heavy strain on state coffers as the government would be forced to compensate farmers for culled animals. The government said it has so far spent 64.0 billion won (US$57.6 million) in compensation, with the total likely to rise in the coming days.

Quarantine experts, however, said that the outbreaks reported this month must be viewed separately from the six cases confirmed in January, since there is too wide a time gap and no physical connection. All previous outbreaks took place in the Pocheon and Yeoncheon regions north of Seoul and were of the A-Type strain of the virus, while those that have been reported this month are O-Type, which spreads more quickly through swine.http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/busi...10100320F.HTML

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S. Korea bans imports of Japanese meat

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Friday banned imports of all meat and by-products made from cloven-hoofed animals in Japan after Tokyo confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the government said.

The farm ministry said the Japanese government acknowledged earlier in the day that three cows suspected of being infected with the virus at a farm in Miyazaki Prefecture tested positive for the highly contagious disease. The farm also raises 16 cattle used for breeding.
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010/05/01 08:56 KST
S. Korea confirms new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease


SEOUL, May 1 (Yonhap) -- The government on Saturday confirmed the country's 10th outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since April at a state-run livestock and veterinary science institute.

The research center in South Chungcheong Province raising some 1,540 "hanwoo" beef cattle and hogs is located 96 kilometers southwest of the farm where the nation confirmed this month's eighth case of the disease, according to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

The outbreak is the first to be reported in the province and may be a sign that the highly contagious animal disease is spreading...