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South Korea has ordered the culling of 1.34 million livestock since late November to stem its severest foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in history, the government said Monday.

Bulgaria has updated the European Commission with more information on the outbreak of FMD in Burgas region.

As of Tuesday, the foot-and-mouth epidemic has stricken 15 northern and central provinces of Vietnam.

The European Commission adopted last night urgent protection measures after a wild boar, which was shot by hunters at the end of 2010 in Bulgaria, tested positive to Food and Mouth Disease (FMD). The Commission's decision aims to reinforce control measures for FMD already taken by the competent Bulgarian authorities.

South Korea on Monday decided to expand areas where vaccination will be administered in the face of the country's severest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the government said.

The European Commission has sent a consignment of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine to Zambia in order to help the African nation's efforts in fighting an outbreak of the disease in the northern part of the country. The consignment consists of 80,000 doses of FMD vaccine.

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that first began in North Gyeongsang Province late last month is now spreading to north of Seoul.

A cattle farm in Yecheon, North Gyeongsang Province, was found to have been infected with the deadly foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] Monday [6 Dec 2010], the 1st outbreak outside Andong, where the disease was 1st reported early last week.

The price of beef and pork has fallen due to the news of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) being found at several more farms.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported two outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in South korea.

The latest report elaborated by the FAO/OIE Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, during the last trimester (July – September), worldwide, shows the appearance of sources of the disease in China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Venezuela, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending its regulations governing the importation of certain animals and animal products by adding the Brazilian State of Santa Catarina to the list of regions we recognize as free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), rinderpest, swine vesicular disease (SVD), classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF). APHIS is also adding Santa Catarina to the list of regions that are subject to certain import restrictions on meat and meat products because of their proximity to or trading relationships with rinderpest- or FMD-affected countries.

As the spread of FMD still continued and the disease outbreak risk is still high, the Cabinet has decided to allocate MNT300 million for the purchase of 600,000 dozes of vaccine from Russia and for injection costs.

In a final report sent to the OIE, Botswana reports that the foot and mouth disease event having started in July 2010 is closed.

Hong Kong has removed its ban on South Korean pork imports, becoming the first state to do so since Seoul was declared free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Since, on 6 October 2010, 3 months will have passed after the destruction of the last case, Japan will shortly apply to the OIE for recovery of status “Freedom from Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) without vaccination”, providing the dossier required to be evaluated by the Scientific Commission for Animal Disease (SCAD), in accordance with the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code.