FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE - JAPAN (38): (MIYAZAKI), SUSPECTED NEW CASE, REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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A ProMED-mail post
Date: Thu 2 Sep 2, 2010
Source: AFP via The Straights Times (Singapore) [edited]
Japan discovered a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] in a cow in its southern prefecture of Miyazaki, just days after it lifted a state of emergency, an official said.
"We cancelled 2 auctions of cows in the prefecture after a suspected case of foot and mouth was discovered on a farm," a prefecture official told AFP.
The region reported the case to the farm ministry and was awaiting the test result to determine whether it is a fresh FMD case.
The highly contagious virus, which [extremely] rarely affects humans but sickens cloven-hoofed animals, had forced the suspension of meat sales from Miyazaki prefecture and the slaughter of almost 300 000 farm animals this year [2010].
But the prefectural government on Tuesday [31 Aug 2010] lifted a state of emergency, allowing trade of cows in the region to resume.
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Communicated by:
FMD News
FMD Surveillance and Modeling Laboratory
University of California at Davis
[Confirmation or otherwise is expected soon. - Mod.AS]
[see also:
Foot & mouth disease - Japan (37): (MZ) resolved 20100828.3062
Foot & mouth disease - Japan (36): (MZ) update 20100826.3012
Foot & mouth disease - Japan (32): (MZ) update, OIE 20100709.2298]
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