South Korea to import 4.8 million vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease

A health officer checks a cattle in a farm in Gimje as a preventive measure against foot-and-mouth disease after South Korea on Monday confirmed a case of food-and-mouth at a dairy farm elsewhere in the country, South Korea, February 6, 2017. Moon Yo-han/News1 via South Korea’s agriculture ministry said on Monday it will import 4.8 million doses of foot-and-mouth vaccine by the end of this month in an effort to prevent further spread of the viral disease.

Council votes to end free vaccines

A community immunisation program has been axed by the Devonport City Council, based on dwindling numbers and the cost to run it. The aldermen voted at Monday’s council meeting to end the monthly immunisation sessions provided free to the community at the East Devonport Recreation Centre.