Monday, July 28, 2014

Second Foot and Mouth Disease Confirmed in South Korea

Raising fears of a repeat of the devastating 2011 outbreak, health officials in South Korea confirmed that they have detected a second case of foot-and-mouth disease in less than a week. A senior Agriculture Ministry official confirmed the second case in a pig farm in the southeast province of North Gyeongsang, but played down the threat. "We believe the possibility of the disease growing into a nationwide outbreak is slim," the head of the ministry's ...

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