date:Jan 31, 2019
South Korea raised the country's foot-and-mouth alert by one notch to curb wider spread of the contagious virus ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays, its agriculture ministry said on Wednesday (Jan 30).
The heightened alert comes as a second case of foot-and-mouth disease was detected on Tuesday at a cattle farm in Anseong city, southeast of the capital Seoul, where the first case in nearly a year was reported at a dairy cow farm on Monday.
Two cases were confirmed to be the O-type virus, wh