Another case of foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea

Introduction: just as the World Cup football match is about to be held in South Korea, the Ministry of agriculture and forestry of South Korea confirmed on December 12 that pigs from two farms were found to be positive for FMD again, raising the number of cases of FMD positive to 8 South Korea's Ministry of agriculture and forestry has slaughtered more than 40000 animals, mainly pigs, in the affected areas, and plans to eliminate about 60000 animals in the area with a radius of 3 km South Korea's Ministry of agriculture and forestry said in a statement that eight of the 15 reports received were positive for FMD The Department also said it was carrying out FMD tests on more livestock less than 100 kilometers south of the capital, Seoul All livestock will be slaughtered in areas within 500 meters of all affected farms, and all pigs will be slaughtered in areas within 3 kilometers of the affected farms on May 4 So far, only pigs have been infected with FMD, but in early 2000, FMD infected cattle Foot and mouth disease kills cloven hoofed animals, such as pigs and cattle, but is harmless to humans.