South Korea: No additional cases of lumpy skin in Chungju City; movement restrictions lifted

Published 2024년 11월 29일

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Chungju City in South Korea has lifted movement restrictions and permitted cattle trading at farms within a quarantine zone after no new cases of Lumpyskin, a cattle disease, were reported for a month. The decision was made after 153 farms within the quarantine zone tested negative for the disease. The city will now administer additional vaccines to newborn calves. Farmers have been advised to continue surveillance and disinfection to control vector insects.

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(Chungju=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Hyung-woo = Chungju City, North Chungcheong Province, announced on the 29th that it has lifted the movement restrictions on the quarantine zone for cattle Lumpyskin within the city limits. As of 6:00 PM on the 27th, the city lifted the movement restrictions on the quarantine zone (within a 5km radius of the outbreak farm) and fully permitted cattle trading at farms. It has been a month since Lumpyskin was discovered at a dairy farm in Shinni-myeon on the 28th of last month. The city decided to lift the restrictions after all 153 farms within the quarantine zone tested negative in a detailed test conducted on them, with no additional cases of infection in the city over the past four weeks. The city plans to administer additional Lumpyskin vaccines to newborn calves born in August and September, who were subject to a vaccination deferral. A city official requested, "Cattle farms should thoroughly conduct continuous surveillance and disinfection to ...

Source: Yna