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FMD vaccine imports due to arrive in Korea this week

By KH디지털2

Published : Feb. 20, 2017 - 16:03

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About 560,000 doses of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease are set to arrive in South Korea later this week, the agriculture ministry said Monday, a move that would help the nation prevent the further spread of the animal disease.

The development came after South Korea recently asked a British manufacturer of the vaccine, Merial, for emergency imports of the FMD vaccine for the type O+A virus to fight against the simultaneous outbreak of the type A and type O viruses. So far, about 1,400 cattle have been slaughtered. 

This undated file photo shows an FMD vaccine. (Yonhap) This undated file photo shows an FMD vaccine. (Yonhap)

Merial notified the ministry last Saturday that it will ship a total of 565,000 doses of the vaccine to South Korea, ministry officials said.

After a type A case was reported at a cow farm northeast of Seoul on Feb. 8, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs requested Merial to allow an emergency import of vaccines for the type O+A virus, which are also effective in treating cows hit by the type A virus.

South Korea has vaccines for the type O+A virus but only for about 1.9 million cows, not enough for the 2.8 million cows that require it, according to officials.

Merial, a leading global animal health and vaccine manufacturer, has been South Korea's main source of vaccine imports.

South Korea plans to start producing its own FMD vaccines in 2020. (Yonhap)

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