World observers say Britain has eliminated foot-and-mouth disease

Introduction: the world organization for animal health (OIE) announced on Tuesday that the UK has eliminated foot-and-mouth disease, paving the way for lifting high-cost international trade restrictions The OIE, based in Paris, said it had approved the UK's application to return to FMD free countries, which do not have the highly contagious disease and do not need to vaccinate their livestock In addition, the UK has spent nearly a year to eliminate foot-and-mouth disease, with remarkable achievements OIE's decision effectively cleared the way for the UK to resume the export of meat and dairy products to countries outside the EU This decision means that the fact that Britain has eliminated foot-and-mouth disease has been recognized by the world After slaughtering more than 4 million livestock, Britain finally defeated the highly infectious livestock disease Farmers were forced to stop animal production and the government lost billions of pounds Oliver cattermole, a spokesman for the Department of environmental, food and agricultural affairs, welcomed the decision in Paris 'obviously, this is great news for the UK and its agriculture, and it's a goal we've been working on,' he said In the short term when the disease is eliminated, we will urge the farmers to keep vigilance and insist on doing well in disease control measures.