Taiwan: 2011 Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks

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Source: http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201103230031

Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out in offshore Taiwan county
2011/03/23 18:59:40

Taipei, March 23 (CNA) More than 900 pigs have been culled in the offshore county of Penghu after some hogs on the auction block at the county's meat market on Tuesday were spotted with blisters on their mouths, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said in a statement.

After the discovery, managers at the market moved quickly to try to contain the outbreak. They immediately slaughtered all 30 pigs that were in the same truck compartment as the first infected animals, and disinfected the market's holding pens and equipment...

 

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Re: Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out in offshore Taiwan county

Re: Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out in offshore Taiwan county

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/03/25/2003499082

Fri, Mar 25, 2011 - Page 2　
Almost 1,000 pigs culled in Penghu after FMD outbreak
Staff Writer, with CNA

More than 900 pigs have been culled in the outlying county of Penghu after some hogs on the auction block at the county?s meat market earlier this week were found to have blisters on their mouths, the Council of Agriculture said in a statement...

...Initial tests on samples collected from the ailing pigs showed that they were infected with an O-type foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus, said Huang Kuo-ching (黃國青), deputy director of the council?s Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine.

As the investigation unfolded, authorities determined that the infected pigs came from Penghu?s largest hog ranch, Huang said.

County officials found other pigs at that ranch showing symptoms of FMD.

Huang said his bureau immediately ordered the slaughter of every pig at the ranch. As of Wednesday noon, 969 pigs had been culled...

 

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Re: Taiwan: 2011 Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks

Source: http://www.todayonline.com/World/ED...n-culls-1,000-pigs-in-foot-and-mouth-outbreak

Taiwan culls 1,000 pigs in foot-and-mouth outbreak
04:46 AM Dec 23, 2011

TAIPEI - The Taiwanese authorities said yesterday they slaughtered nearly 1,000 pigs earlier this week after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease - the island's worst in more than 14 years.

The pigs were culled at a farm in the southern city of Tainan after they developed blisters, which are among the symptoms of the disease...