Namibia halts meat exports after rare foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
TDT | Manama
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Namibia has recorded its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in its primary commercial livestock zone in 60 years, the agriculture ministry said, prompting a nationwide ban on livestock movement and meat exports. Foot-and-mouth disease, also known as FMD, is a highly contagious viral infection that is not dangerous to humans but that affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals.
Namibia is now the eighth country in southern Africa to be hit by FMD this year following Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The virus breached Namibia's veterinary cordon fence -- a barrier separating the endemic northern region from the south -- and spread into an area that had remained officially FMD-free since 1964.
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