An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in cattle has been confirmed in South Korea, for the first time in four years, straining health authorities.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on Tuesday that a cow had tested positive for the FMD virus in a cattle farm in Anseong City, the country's cattle heartland, some 100 kilometers south of Seoul.
The farm is also close to a pig farm in the central North Chungcheong Province, where this winter's first FMD case in the country was reported last month.
The ministry has been stepping up quarantine measures but said that the possibility of a nationwide spread is unlikely as the infected cow has developed 97 percent of an antibody. It added that other cattle in the Anseong farm tested negative for the virus.
In 2010, FMD forced authorities to cull 1.65 million pigs and 67,000 cattle nationwide. In Anseong alone, 206,000 pigs, along with 1,600 cattle, were culled.
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