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    A company closed down in the Netherlands after a suspected FMD case was found

    • Last Update: 2002-08-06
    • Source: Internet
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    Introduction: The Netherlands announced on Friday that it had shut down a company found to have suspected FMD cases as a routine measure to deal with FMD According to the Ministry of agriculture, the company is located in the eastern province of Drenthe, and preliminary tests showed that one of its livestock may have foot-and-mouth disease As a precaution, the company, which deals in the export trade of live cattle to Poland, has been shut down Authorities will test the animal further and the results will be available on Wednesday In the past 12 months, a total of 50 livestock in the Netherlands have developed foot-and-mouth disease symptoms, but the final test results are all negative "Of the 100 tests, only about one confirmed the presence of FMD virus, i.e FMD may have occurred "There are no physical signs of foot-and-mouth disease," said a spokeswoman for the Ministry of agriculture Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious animal disease, which can cause serious fat loss of cloven hoofed animals such as cattle and sheep In 2001, the disease broke out on a large scale in the UK, and then slightly infected countries such as Ireland, France and the Netherlands The Dutch government has adopted selective vaccination to prevent the spread of the epidemic in areas with relatively serious infection After a total of 26 cases, the authorities announced that the disease had been eliminated (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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