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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Mongolia continues fight against foot-and-mouth disease

Via Xinhua :

" ULAN BATOR, July 6 : The government will continue to fight foot-and-mouth disease in eastern Mongolia by vaccinating millions of livestock, officials said Tuesday.

Efforts to fight the disease in eastern Mongolia were continuing and the vaccination of the country's livestock would also continue, Enkhbold Miegombo, deputy premier and chairman of the national emergency commission, said during a commission meeting.

The commission said the government has spent 326 million Tugrig (0.22 million U.S. dollars) on the vaccination of cattle herds. So far, 1,400 infected cattle have been slaughtered and buried in Dornod province."

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