Three more cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been confirmed in South Korea, raising worries that the animal disease keeps spreading in the country, government officials said Saturday.

One FMD case was confirmed at a cow farm in Icheon, 80 kilometers west of Seoul, said the officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

The farm is located about 2.1 kilometers from a pig farm where an FMD case was confirmed last month, they said.

This was the fourth confirmed FMD case in a cow in South Korea since December last year. Two of the cases were reported in Icheon.

The ministry also said that it has confirmed two more FMD cases at pig farms in Cheonan and Hongseong, both in South Chungcheong province.

The additional FMD cases added to worries that the animal disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals such as cows, sheep and deer especially is spreading in South Korea ahead of the Lunar New Holiday in mid-February when population movement is expected to spike. (Yonhap)