Fears of foot - and - mouth soothed

BuaNews (Tshwane) Siphiwe Nyathi14 October 2010
Burgersfort - Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries has provided Limpopo farmers and there was no outbreak of disease very contagious foot - and - mouth disease in the region of the great Tubatse livestock owners.
This comes after it has issued a statement Friday saying
 who suspect the laboratory results had been received from a few cattle sampled in the free zone of diseases normally.
Thursday, Director of the Department of communication and information, Noncedo Vutula confirmed the results proved negative.
"All the follow-up monitoring and laboratory tests proved négatifs.Il has no clinical signs of disease or serological evidence of spread of the disease and no foot and-mouth virus has been detected", she said.
Vutula added that veterinary authorities have confirmed the results of laboratory.
Foot - and - mouth disease is a serious, highly contagious viral disease captured mainly cattle and pigs, although it may also affect sheep, goats and other cloven-feathered Dove-hooved animals such as deer and camels.
The virus can be spread by animals, people or materials put into physical contact with susceptible animals.
In the month of August, the Ministry reported an outbreak in the area of Gravelotte farm private Malati.


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