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Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen says access to foot-and-mouth disease vaccines must remain tightly controlled, as some farmers head to court seeking to use doses independently. The Department of Agriculture was briefing the Portfolio committee on the roll out vaccines for the foot -and-mouth disease. It says the outbreak is worsening, with cases now reported across all provinces and more than …

South Africa needs 28-million doses of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine this year, in order to take a major step in breaking the back of the countrywide outbreak. That’s according to Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen who is visiting the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands to monitor the roll-out of a mass vaccination campaign to fight the disease. Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says that …

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen briefs the media on Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine rollout in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Livestream| Steenhuisen media briefing on FMD vaccine rollout in KZN: www.sabcnews.com, https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/live-minister-john-steenhuisen-briefs-media-on-fmd-vaccine-rollout/

A University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)- based Animal Health and Science expert has called on cattle farmers to adhere to safety rules after their animals have been vaccinated against Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD). Dr Ntuthuko Mkhize has been reacting to the first phase of the mass vaccination rollout, where the KwaZulu-Natal province has been allocated 200 thousand doses of vaccines following a …

The North West Department of Agriculture says it is yet to determine where their latest batch of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine doses will be administered. The latest batch comes a week after the province received 1 400 vaccine doses, which were administered to a dairy herd in the Bojanala District. Red meat producers have warned that consumers must …