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Foot-and-mouth disease confirmed in China

10/06/2013

China’s Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed an outbreak of cattle disease foot and mouth in Yunnan Province in the south-west of the country. A village in Shangri-La County reported on June 3 that 283 head of cattle had shown signs of the disease. Local authorities have sealed off and sterilised an infected area where 1,767 head of cattle have...

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