SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday raised the crisis level of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) to the highest point in central regions and will implement beefed-up quarantine measures to prevent the spread of the animal disease, the agriculture ministry said. The warning level was heightened by two notches from “caution” to [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has confirmed foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) cases at local farms for the first time in more than four years, the agriculture ministry said Thursday. The FMD cases were found at two beef cattle farms both located in the central city of Cheongju, some 112 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Wednesday it has developed a new adjuvant that can bolster the effectiveness of vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The new adjuvant, dubbed “rpHSP70-AD,” is capable of developing antibodies at a faster pace while coping with various strains of FMD, according to the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The government apologized Friday for the recent outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country and vowed to make all-out efforts to tackle the spread of the highly contagious virus. “We have promptly taken countermeasures including immediate culling and issuing travel regulations as soon as we received reports [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday issued a higher alert amid concerns over foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) spreading in the country. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it increased the severity of the alert, to the second-highest level, after two FMD cases were reported in Anseong, 80 kilometers south [...]
SEJONG, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agriculture ministry said Tuesday that it has lifted a movement ban on local livestock farms as no additional cases of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease have been reported in over a month. Last month, the ministry also released a standstill order on poultry farms in 20 regions as there [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and China agreed to share information on contagious animal diseases and step up cooperation in the quarantine sector, Seoul’s agriculture ministry said Thursday. South Korean agriculture minister Kim Yong-rok met with his Chinese counterpart Han Changfu in Beijing and signed a memorandum of understanding on animal safety [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s animal quarantine agency said Sunday that its has developed the world’s first diagnosis kit that can simultaneously check three different types of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) strains. The kit is able to detect the O, A and Asia 1 serum types of the highly contagious disease that affects [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Following criticism of recurrent foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in South Korea, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced Sunday that it will introduce a pilot project for a mutual aid system that will function much like a health insurance policy for cattle. The “premiums” will be split fifty-fifty [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy farm, the agriculture ministry in Sejong said Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said that 195 cows at the farm in Boeun, 180 kilometers southeast of Seoul, of North Chungcheong Province, tested positive for the [...]