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Livestock Disease Fuels Food Concerns

02/18/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

A fast-spreading livestock disease in North Korea threatens to aggravate the chronic food shortage in the reclusive country, where oxen are key to farm production.

More than 10,000 oxen, cows, and pigs have been infected in the outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease, and thousands have already died, North Korea’s official news agency said in a statement last week.  Read more.

Categories: Famines and Crop Destruction, Mass Animal Deaths, Pestilence
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