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Article: Brazil Confirms Three New Cases of Foot-and-mouth Disease
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 29, 2001
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The Brazilian government confirmed on Monday three new cases of
foot-and-mouth disease in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Two of the latest outbreaks occurred in the southeastern town of
Rio Grande while the third was diagnosed further west in Quarai,
near the border with Uruguay, the state's agriculture department
said.
It was Brazil's 14th foot-and-mouth outbreak in the past three
weeks. Authorities have started a massive vaccination campaign to
protect the state's 13-million-head herd, besides slaughtering 608
infected cattle in recent weeks, with 208 more to be culled in the
next few days.
Although the latest infections were all in the southern border
regions, they will do ...