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A zero-duty tariff-rate quota for 70,000 MT of fresh and frozen pork bellies and pork for processing is opened from January 1- March 31.

If no new FMD cases are reported in the next two weeks, the bureau will lift the ban.

This is the first occurrence of FMD serotype O South-East Asia (SEA) topotype.

Some of the feeder pigs at a quarantine station, which were transported from Taiwan Island to Penghu Island, were found with vesicular lesions.

Stamping out of all susceptible animals was completed on 9 January 2012.

Due to the emergence of new outbreaks of FMD in Paraguay, the Brazilian authorities are increasing surveillance and control measures at the borders with the country.

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) remains one of the world’s most widespread epizootic animal diseases.

The self-sufficiency ratio of the meat stood at 60.3 percent at the end of last year, down 20.6 percentage points from a year earlier.

The European Commission has approved to grant a financial contribution from the Union towards certain measures to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease in wild animals in the south-east of Bulgaria in 2011-2012.

The South African Department of Agriculture has informed the OIE of an outbreak of FMD. The outbreak is located in Mbombela (Mpumalanga) and affects only cattle.

Live pigs in Central China's Hubei province have been found to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease, the Ministry of Agriculture announced Monday.

This new outbreak notified in this report is epidemiologically linked with the previous event notified on 18 September 2011 and closed on 30 December 2011.

Pigs with vesicular lesions were reported by a private veterinarian on a pig farm in Tainan City with 2667 susceptible animals and 983 cases.

Movement restrictions on the farm of origin of a pig with vesicular lesions found at the slaughterhouse in Tao Yuan County and on the farms in Penghu are lifted.

In two follow-up reports sent to the OIE, Botswana notified that no new foot and mouth disease outbreaks have occurred since April and May 2011.

One pig with vesicular lesions was found in a detention pen (only one pig in that pen) of the slaughterhouse in Tao Yuan County.