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Article: Brazil ends foot-and-mouth disease slaughter in southern state
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 21, 2006
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Brazil ends foot-and-mouth disease slaughter in southern state
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Agriculture
Ministry announced on Monday that it had completed the cull of
animals infected with foot-and-mouth disease in the southern state of
Mato Grosso do Sul, around five months after the disease was
discovered.
Having slaughtered nearly 34,000 domestic animals -- mainly
cattle, but also some pigs and goats, the outbreak and spread of the
disease had been contained, the ministry said, adding that tests were
to be conducted to ...