KZN Dairy Farmers and Agriculture Department Join Forces to Tackle Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak

Africa: South Africa Convenes High-Level Indaba to Tackle Fmd Outbreaks

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa is currently experiencing significant and ongoing challenges with widespread outbreaks of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD), affecting several provinces, including KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and, most recently, the Free State.

KZN dairy farmers and Agriculture Department join forces to tackle foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

Govt shifts to local FMD vaccine production after spending R72m - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

South Africa has spent over R72 million on about 900 000 doses of vaccines for the Foot and Mouth disease outbreak since March this year. The government is now prioritising measures to manufacture locally produced FMD vaccines to respond quicker to outbreaks and prevent economic devastation for many agricultural stakeholders. Various stakeholders, led by the Department of Agriculture and the Agriculture Research Council, the University of Pretor…

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen discusses Foot-and-Mouth Disease impact

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen discussed the impact of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in the country and called for a solution to its impact.

Call for urgent overhaul of disease control framework amid ongoing FMD challenges

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, has called for urgent and proper

FMD Indaba: Government's planned vaccine bank

Vaccine shortages are the biggest reason why South Africa has not been able to extinguish the flareups of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in several provinces, agricultural minister, John Steenhuisen, admitted during the first day of the national FMD Indaba currently underway at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC)’s Roodeplaat campus in Gauteng. “Our FMD vaccine reserves were […] The post FMD Indaba: Government’s planned vaccine bank appeared f…