China tightens border controls for cattle entry amid foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.

THE Chinese Ministry of Agriculture reported, this past Friday (3), that the country is reinforcing the Border controls for the entry and exit of cattle., after the start of a outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease node northwest of ChinaAccording to Chinese authorities, were shot down 6,229 cattle in province of Gansu and in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous RegionThe government states that the first case of the disease did not originate in the country and is already working to… produce new vaccines to combat the outbreak. The serotype SAT-1 It was found in the infected animals that the disease is endemic to the African continent. Therefore, the existing domestic vaccines in China, of serotypes O and Athey do not offer protection to SAT-1Cases of the disease have already been reported in regions of Middle East, Western Asia and SouthThe ministry is still evaluating which border to cross. SAT-1 He entered Chinese territory. outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease occurs at the same time as Russia also facing an outbreak of bovine disease in Novosibirsk region of Siberia, which borders the Kazakhstan and that could be the initial focus of the disease.

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