The agency says no virus found since last July
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/05/06
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(By Wikimedia Commons)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Executive Yuan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) announced on Monday (May 6) that Taiwan has successfully eradicated the foot and mouth disease (FMD).
After 23 years of combatting FMD, Taiwan has finally been able to claim itself free from the epidemic, said COA deputy minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) on Monday (May 6).
Huang told the media that the government will be able to submit documented evidence to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in July to be endorsed as a “FMD free country where vaccination is not practiced.”
The OIE requires countries to demonstrate no infection with FMD virus in unvaccinated animals after ending vaccination for 12 months. Taiwan stopped vaccination practice in June last year. [FULL STORY]
