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FMD confirmed in Argentina

14/02/2006

Argentina has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on a farm in San Luís del Palmar, in the Province of Corrientes which borders Paraguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The outbreak is located on the right-hand bank of the Paraná River, 280 km from Rio Grande do Sul and 25 km from Paraguay.

The national Service for Sanitation and Food Quality (Senasa) has reported that the 70 infected cattle have been slaughtered and another 3,000 head on the same farm will be slaughtered for domestic beef consumption.

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