South Korea: make every effort to reduce the impact of foot-and-mouth disease on the world cup

Lead: Seoul, May 11 (Reuters) - South Korea's Ministry of agriculture is planning to vaccinate livestock within 50-60 kilometers around the affected area to control the spread of the epidemic But the move will extend the time it takes for South Korea to announce the elimination of FMD and the resumption of pork exports The world cup is just around the corner It's a four-year sports event Thousands of tourists will gather in South Korea and go to 10 sports venues around the country To this end, the South Korean government is making every effort to put out foot-and-mouth disease and try to eliminate people's concerns about the safety of meat Kim Dong TAE, South Korea's agriculture minister, has publicly tasted pork at a local barbecue shop in an attempt to prove that foot-and-mouth disease, a deadly disease of livestock, does not harm humans "After foot-and-mouth disease, sales of pork ribs in Central South Korea fell by 5% - 10%," a pork and beef supplier told reporters by telephone at Suwon, the closest venue to the affected area One ton of pork ribs and 500 kg of beef ribs are produced every day, half of which are sold to the central part of South Korea He also said sales of ribs had barely changed because so far no cattle had been found suffering from foot-and-mouth disease.