Mongolia’s capital city Ulaanbaatar to launch vaccination campaign against foot-and-mouth disease
Mongolia has planned to start a vaccination campaign here in May to prevent an outbreak of the deadly foot-and-mouth disease among high-risk animals.
Mongolia’s capital city Ulaanbaatar to launch vaccination campaign against foot-and-mouth disease. Mongolia has planned to start a vaccination campaign here in May to prevent an outbreak of the deadly foot-and-mouth disease among high-risk animals. There are about 16,000 heads of livestock in the capital of Mongolia. The vaccines to immunize these animals will be supplied from Russia. Currently, restrictive measures are being taken place in over 20 soums in eight provinces to control the spread of the foot-and-mouth disease. Mongolian quarantine officials are using lemonic acid to disinfect all vehicles that come from the infected areas to the capital city. The foot-and-mouth disease is a viral infectious disease that spreads between cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. The main symptoms of sick animals are increased body temperature, blisters and ulceration in the mucous membranes and hoofs in the mouth. The foot-and-mouth disease is rarely transmitted to humans, but humans may also be infected if exposed to the virus. Mongolian quarantine officials have had over 4000 livestock animals slaughtered since the beginning of this year in the country to limit the spread of the disease.
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