Yongin City Takes Proactive Measures Including Vaccination and Disinfection to Prevent Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Yongin City is deploying disinfection vehicles to carry out sanitation measures to prevent the entry of foot-and-mouth disease.

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province has launched emergency vaccination and other measures to block foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) following its occurrence in South Korea for the first time in 4 years and 4 months.

To respond swiftly to FMD prevention, Yongin City has activated a quarantine countermeasure situation room. Additionally, a key disinfection facility for livestock vehicles is being operated in Geungok-ri, Baegam-myeon, Cheoin-gu, where about two-thirds of the livestock farms in the area are located.

To form antibodies against FMD, emergency vaccinations will be administered to a total of 144,270 animals, including 14,270 cattle and 130,000 pigs, by the 20th of this month. Livestock under 2 months of age or scheduled for shipment within 2 weeks are excluded.

Moreover, nine disinfection vehicles are being deployed to intensively disinfect areas with dense livestock barns, roadside areas, and farm entrances to prevent contamination sources from entering.

A Yongin City official stated, "Considering that the FMD serotype that occurred this time is type O, which is covered by the vaccine, prevention is possible through thorough vaccination and farm quarantine measures," and urged, "We ask farm stakeholders to strictly follow quarantine guidelines."

In the Yongin area, 265 farms raise 15,000 cattle, and 128 farms raise 177,000 pigs. As of today, the FMD antibody formation rate is 94%.

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