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Asia on Alert After Livestock Disease Outbreak in Korea
28.01.2011 10:54 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today notified veterinary and border authorities in Asia of a major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Republic of Korea, urging them to be on the look-out for livestock showing signs of infection by the highly contagious animal disease. FAO said that the Republic of Korea has since late November last year imposed quarantines, initiated a vaccination campaign that is targeting nine million pigs and three million heads of cattle, and culled 2.2 million livestock.
The overall cost of the FMD control effort in the Republic of Korea is estimate
d at about $1.6 billion, according to FAO, which described the outbreak as "unprecedented
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