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Malawi: FMD confirmed but no vaccine

19/10/2011

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is spreading quickly in the cattle heartland of the Lower Shire Valley in Malawi, putting at least 70,000 head of cattle at risk.

According to Dr. Ben Chimera, the acting head of Animal Health Services in the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Malawi has not got a vaccine to contain the spread of the disease.

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