Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has broken out on a Taiwan hog farm, 14 years after an epidemic hit the island, the nation’s Council of Agriculture has reported.

Health workers on the Penghu Islands in the middle of the Taiwan Strait noticed the outbreak Tuesday 22 March 2011 after 30 hogs on a pig farm developed blisters around their months, the council said in a statement.

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