Suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Belgium

OA show ('918 '); [suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Belgium] Jacques Gabriel, Minister of agriculture of Belgium, announced Wednesday that a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease was found in a pig farm in northern Belgium, and the government has taken urgent preventive measures Gabriel told the press that before the results of the inspection were released, Belgium had implemented emergency precautions to prohibit livestock transportation nationwide for 72 hours According to an official from the Ministry of agriculture, the pig farm imported a group of pigs from the UK not long ago in dixmide, 90km from Brussels, where suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease were found At present, the farm has been quarantined and experts are inspecting the pigs Belgian experts say if suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Belgium are confirmed, it will indicate that foot-and-mouth disease has crossed the English Channel and entered the European continent, and the situation will be more serious China feed industry information network jbz (author:)