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Bulgaria will restore the fence on its Turkish border which existed during the Cold War to prevent animals with food-and-mouth disease (FMD) from entering, the government has decided.

SFA begins paying compensations to farmers affected by FMD in municipalities of Sredets, Tsarevo and Malko Turnovo, Burgas, upon the decision of the Management Board of the SFA. The funds will be transferred till the end of the quarantine period of 3 months.

The Russian authorities have informed the OIE about a new outbreak of ASF in Nizhegorodskaya Oblast.

South Korea will not raise its present foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) alert level despite a fresh outbreak in the southeastern part of the country over the weekend, a government official said Monday.

On 18 April 2011, the North Korean veterinary authorities informed the OIE about the confirmation of 4 new outbreaks of FMD.

On 7 April 2011, the Bulgarian authorities informed the Commission about the confirmation of a new FMD outbreak (outbreak 11) in domestic animals in Sredets municipality.

The All-Russia Research Institute of Veterinary Virology and Microbiology tested pathological material taken from pigs found dead in the private holding in closed administrative-territorial unit Mirny, Plesetsky Rayon, the Arkhangelsk Oblast.

According to information submitted to the OIE by Dr Zhang Zhongqui, Director General , China Animal Disease Control Centre, a new outbreak of FMD has been confirmed in Jing Xiang village (GUIZHOU).

The 38th Meeting of the South American Commission for the Fight against Foot and Mouth Disease (COSALFA) took place last week in Recife (Brazil), with the objective of defining the next steps to take in the fight against foot and mouth disease in the 2011-2020 Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Plan of Action (PHEFA).

South Korea will reopen all 85 of its livestock markets today, almost four months after they were closed at the end of November last year when FMD surfaced.

The Bulgarian authorities have notified two new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in the country.

The foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has haunted farms nationwide seems to have come under control.

Abnormal lesions on fifteen pigs' feet were found on the truck by routine inspection before they entered into the auction market of Tainan City. The local animal disease control competent authority traced back to the farm of origin to carry out the clinical investigation. The result showed that 15 pigs on farm had the same clinical lesions. Thirty pigs, the 15 pigs on the truck and the 15 pigs on the index farm, were destroyed on 21 March 2011.

On 19 March 2011, Bulgaria reported a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in beef cattle grazing in the municipality of Sredets, situated in the region of Burgas, west of the municipality of Malko Tarnovo where the last outbreak was reported on 31 January 2011.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported a new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in China on 29 March.