Insights and Stories on Foot-and-mouth

Prepping and preventing for a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

Apr. 12, 2024 at 9:48 am CDT

In 2001, foot-and-mouth disease decimated the U.K.’s beef industry. Millions of animals were culled after foot-and-mouth broke out in the country. According to the BBC, there were 2,000 cases of the disease, which resulted in entire farms having their animals slaughtered. Soldiers dug mass graves and piles of carcasses burned, […]

Feds announce $1.7 million for foreign animal disease prevention

Mar. 7, 2024 at 4:21 pm CST

By Geralyn Wichers

MPs get assurance on Canada’s biosecurity preparedness

May. 9, 2023 at 7:29 pm CDT

By Jonah Grignon

Interest-free cash advances get extra lift in federal budget

Mar. 28, 2023 at 7:09 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Indonesia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak prompts international measures

Jul. 21, 2022 at 10:36 pm CDT

By Reuters

Canada allows Brazilian beef and pork, Brazil ag minister says

Mar. 14, 2022 at 3:40 pm CDT

Updated, March 15 — Reuters — Canada has approved the importation of beef and pork from Brazil, which had been blocked over health concerns, authorities from both countries said on Monday. “We are in Ottawa and have just left the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture with … great news: the opening […]

By Reuters

Colombia cleared of foot-and-mouth

Feb. 6, 2020 at 1:11 pm CST

Bogota | Reuters — Colombia will look to double its meat exports now it has regained its status as a country free of foot-and-mouth disease, President Ivan Duque said on Thursday. Foot-and-mouth is a highly contagious viral disease found in animals and is one of the most serious to affect […]

By Reuters

OIE declares Brazil free of foot-and-mouth, with vaccination

May. 24, 2018 at 7:56 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) declared Brazil free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) with vaccination on Thursday, opening new export prospects for the world’s largest beef exporter. The OIE already considered most of Brazil to be free of FMD with vaccination. The declaration, which the […]

By Reuters

Ontario hogs confirmed with senecavirus

Oct. 4, 2016 at 8:08 pm CDT

A hog virus watched closely in North America for its strong family resemblance to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has turned up in hogs in Ontario. Officials with hog industry body Ontario Pork reported Monday that senecavirus A, formerly called Seneca Valley virus or SVV, has been confirmed in the province. Neighbouring […]

By Staff

Korea finds hogs infected with foot-and-mouth

Jan. 12, 2016 at 7:14 pm CST

Seoul | Reuters –– South Korea has detected foot-and-mouth in a southwestern hog farm, the first such discovery in nine months and a blow to authorities pushing to contain the disease. The case involved a type of the disease that animals are inoculated against in South Korea, with all 670 […]

By Reuters

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Insights and Stories on Foot-and-mouth

Prepping and preventing for a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

Feds announce $1.7 million for foreign animal disease prevention

MPs get assurance on Canada’s biosecurity preparedness

Interest-free cash advances get extra lift in federal budget

Indonesia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak prompts international measures

Canada allows Brazilian beef and pork, Brazil ag minister says

Colombia cleared of foot-and-mouth

OIE declares Brazil free of foot-and-mouth, with vaccination

Ontario hogs confirmed with senecavirus

Korea finds hogs infected with foot-and-mouth

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