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Article: Foot-and-mouth disease hits draught cattle in Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 27, 2008
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Foot-and-mouth disease hits draught cattle in Myanmar's cyclone-
hit areas
YANGON, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Foot-and-mouth disease has hit
draught cattle in Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas, the local Biweekly
Eleven reported Friday, quoting the Livestock Breeding and
Veterinary Department.
The disease has recently been found in buffaloes and cows used in
recultivation of agricultural fields in four storm-hit townships,
namely, Laputta, Kyonmange, Wakema and Kawmu in Ayeyawaddy delta and
Yangon division, the report said.
The animal-borne-disease was said to have been caused by
sustained touching of cattle's foot with sea water, especially
buffaloes which were inflicted the heaviest blow by the ...