SOUTH AFRICA FACES FRESH FMD OUTBREAK
August 1st, 2013
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) has broken out in a key cattle rearing area of South Africa – Limpopo province, in the country’s north-east. Reports from South Africa’s department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries’ animal production and health branch, have blamed contact with wild animals for the outbreak. It occurred in two communities - Ba-Phalaborwa, and Greater Giyani - that border the Kruger National Park and other private wildlife reserves.The branch’s chief director Dr Bothle Michael Modisane, aid that six cases have left 1,841 head of cattle ...
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