Foot-and-mouth disease has extend to Miyakonojo city, Japan’s largest producer of pork and beef, in the southern region of Miyazaki, threatening the nation’s livestock industry and feed grain demand.The government definite the outbreak in a beef cattle farm in the city, about 50 kilometers from the eastern area of Miyazaki, where the most cases were discovered.
All 208 animals in the farm were culled, raise the number to about 158,600, said Atsushi Tachi at the animal health partition of the agriculture ministry.“We are in a very serious, dangerous phase,” Prime Minister Naoto Kan was quoted by public broadcaster NHK as saying to government officials today. “It is important to act fast to avoid the disease from spreading further.”
Foot-and-mouth is one of the most contagious livestock diseases and can have high humanity rates in young animals, according to the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health, or OIE. Miyazaki is Japan’s second-biggest pig-farming region and third-largest producer of beef cattle.
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All 208 animals in the farm were culled, raise the number to about 158,600, said Atsushi Tachi at the animal health partition of the agriculture ministry.“We are in a very serious, dangerous phase,” Prime Minister Naoto Kan was quoted by public broadcaster NHK as saying to government officials today. “It is important to act fast to avoid the disease from spreading further.”
Foot-and-mouth is one of the most contagious livestock diseases and can have high humanity rates in young animals, according to the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health, or OIE. Miyazaki is Japan’s second-biggest pig-farming region and third-largest producer of beef cattle.
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