HONG KONG FMD
April 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HONG Kong health officials are fighting to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which has affected 16 cattle in a New Territories lairage. All nearby susceptible livestock have been slaughtered (7,146 pigs, 560 cattle and 120 goats), and surveillance has been stepped up on local pig farms and on Hong Kong's only cattle farm.
HONG Kong health officials are fighting to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which has affected 16 cattle in a New Territories lairage. All nearby susceptible livestock have been slaughtered (7,146 pigs, 560 cattle and 120 goats), and surveillance has been stepped up on local pig farms and on Hong Kong's only cattle farm.
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