FMD-Free Clean City, Gumi-si

Wuje-ryu Breeding Farm No. 1668 and Over 130,000 Heads Undergo Mass Vaccination in the First Half of the Year

FMD Vaccine Antibody Test Conducted 4 Weeks After Vaccination... Compliance Verification

Gumi City in Gyeongbuk Province will promote a mass vaccination campaign against foot-and-mouth disease for cloven-hoofed livestock farms from April 1 to 28.

Foot-and-mouth disease vaccination.

The targets include 1,668 farms raising cattle, pigs, and goats within the jurisdiction, totaling over 130,000 heads. For small-scale farms raising fewer than 50 cattle or 300 goats, support will be provided with vaccination veterinarians and capture personnel such as public veterinarians, while full-time farmers will purchase vaccines from the livestock cooperative and administer the vaccinations themselves.

The city plans to randomly select full-time farmers four weeks after the mass vaccination to check the vaccine antibody positivity rate to ensure proper vaccination by the farms.

If the test results show antibody positivity rates below 80% for cattle, 60% for goats, 60% for breeding pigs, and 30% for fattening pigs, fines will be imposed on the farms. Additionally, re-inspections will be conducted at four-week intervals until the antibody positivity rates improve, with further fines imposed as part of special management.

Jeon Hojin, Director of the Livestock Division, said, “Since foot-and-mouth disease occurred last year in the Chungbuk region and continues to occur in neighboring countries such as China, please adhere to basic quarantine rules such as vaccination and farm disinfection to maintain a foot-and-mouth disease-free clean Gumi.”

Foot-and-mouth disease is a first-class statutory livestock infectious disease that infects cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle and pigs. Symptoms include blisters around the mouth and hooves, fever, and loss of appetite.