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Colombia says it has dealt with FMD outbreak

24/08/2017
Colombia’s national agriculture and livestock institute, ICA, has said it has completed all stages of an action plan to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country.

Cattle tested positive for the disease in two provinces, Cundinamarca and Cúcuta. ICA said the authorities had slaughtered 3,325 animals there, disposing carefully of the remains in accordance with World Organisation for Animal Health guidance, and insisted that all signs of the outbreak had vanished by August 17.

There were fewer cases of FMD in Cúcuta, but the outbreak there was of special concern to the institute because it occurred on an international border, the frontier between Colombia and Venezuela.



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