South Korea on Tuesday reported an additional foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) case at a local cattle farm, raising the number of cases this year to nine, officials said.
The latest case was found at the farm in the county of Yeongam, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, according to them.
The farm is 90 km from a cattle farm where this year's first FMD case broke out last week for the first time in almost two years.
Following the first outbreak, the government has raised the crisis level for Yeongam and several other adjacent regions to "serious," the highest level of its four-tier system, and has begun a nationwide FMD vaccination program, initially planned for next month.
FMD is an acute infectious viral disease that causes illness in cows, pigs, goats and other cloven-hoofed animals. It does not affect humans. (Yonhap)
