Gyeonggi-do's Proactive Response Including Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccination

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Gyeonggi Province has recently taken preemptive measures such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccination for all 8,460 cattle farms in the province following the outbreak of FMD at a Korean beef farm in Cheongju, Chungbuk.

On the afternoon of the 12th, Gyeonggi Province sent an official letter titled "Thorough Implementation of the Governor's Special Quarantine Instructions to Prevent Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreaks" to each city and county.

According to the special quarantine instructions, Gyeonggi Province requested that all livestock-related facilities, including all cattle farms and slaughterhouses in the province, complete thorough disinfection and FMD vaccination by that day.

Public officials in each city and county were instructed to conduct telephone surveillance targeting all cattle, pigs, and other cloven-hoofed livestock farms in their jurisdiction, and livestock farms were required to carry out regular disinfection daily between 2 and 3 p.m. until the 31st of this month.

Additionally, livestock farms were urged to refrain from holding events and gatherings, and to strictly disinfect and record the disinfection of livestock, people, and vehicles when entering and exiting the farms.

Gyeonggi Province also requested that foreign workers entering the country and livestock-related personnel returning from overseas travel be prohibited from entering farms for five days, and emphasized strengthening ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections of slaughtered livestock as well as enhancing disinfection inside and outside slaughterhouses.

Previously, in 2019, two cases of FMD occurred in Anseong, resulting in the culling of 2,223 animals.

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