Posted on 03/07/2007 11:21:23 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Foot-and-mouth outbreak confirmed in N. Korea: official
SEOUL, March, 8 (Yonhap) -- The global animal health body has confirmed a foot-and-mouth outbreak in North Korea and South Korea has boosted quarantine steps at the border, a Seoul official said Thursday.
"The outbreak was first reported at a farm near Pyongyang on Feb. 7, affecting more than 2,000 cows and pigs," said Kim Chang-seob, the chief veterinary officer at the Agriculture Ministry. "The World Organization for Animal Health confirmed the outbreak as of Wednesday."
It is the first time that the health body confirmed a foot-and-mouth case in the communist country, he added.
Ping!
Gee, I didn't know they still had a cow or pig still alive in India.
Oops, North Korea. What was I thinking?
The Reform Party in Korea?
Well, at least the quaruntine won't be too much of a hardship on the rest of the world. They don't really have much of a tourist trade.
Oh crap. Food's already pretty tight up there, this might push a lot of people who's diet is already marginal into starvation.
I was just thinking, do you suppose that this has anything to do with the UN pulling out all their workers?
A scary situation for all of the SANE North Koreans. And believe me, there are quite a few of them.
Yes, I can well imagine that this could could be scary with the food supplies there, already low and Kim Jong Il in control.
Prayers for the people of North Korea - you are right, this is a very scary situation for a people already starving. How I wish that Kim Il Jong was gone, that we might be able to aid the North Koreans without abetting their evil dictator...
Ping!
Escaped from one of their bio-war labs? I'll bet there will be a lot of scrutiny of the strain involved.
no kidding I thought that their politicians had caught a case of Foot in Mouth disease (ala Dan Quayle) which for US politicos tends to result in unemployment, wonder if it causes loss of head in communist countries.
But Tiger that what you call athletic foot am I RIGHT LMAO
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