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Article: Foot-and-Mouth Disease Hits Brazil
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- May 7, 2001
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AP Online
05-07-2001
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Hits Brazil
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease hit southern Brazil just as the government was preparing a massive vaccination campaign, agriculture officials said Monday.
Eleven head of cattle have contracted the highly infectious disease in Rio Grande do Sul state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina, said Agriculture Minister Marcus Vinicius Pratini de Moraes.
``We've been doing everything possible to keep the disease out,'' he said, adding that a state of emergency has been declared in the southern state.
Brazil is home to one of the largest commercial cattle herds in the world, with 160 million head.
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