At present, foot-and-mouth disease in Xinjiang has been effectively controlled and has not spread

Introduction: China News Agency, Urumqi, May 30 (reporter Wang Jinsheng) Xinjiang animal husbandry department said today that the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in hebukesaer County, Xinjiang in the early May of this year has been put out in time, and the epidemic has been effectively controlled In early May of this year, 75 cattle in a pasture in hebukesaer County, Xinjiang, showed similar symptoms of FMD infection, which was confirmed as type I FMD epidemic in Asia by the national FMD reference laboratory After the outbreak, the local government launched an emergency plan to prevent and control foot-and-mouth disease, the Xinjiang animal husbandry department said The epidemic point and epidemic area shall be strictly sealed off, and an expert group shall be sent to the epidemic area to guide and supervise the handling of the epidemic situation, and the disinfection measures shall be strictly enforced At the same time, the relevant departments shall coordinate the deployment, carry out emergency immunization and strengthen the epidemic situation monitoring It is understood that all the local sick cattle and cattle of the same herd have been killed, and the epidemic has been effectively controlled without spreading Type I foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Asia is an acute and severe infectious disease newly transmitted to China, which mainly infects cloven hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep, etc it does not belong to zoonosis, and does not pose a threat to human health and safety.