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S. Korea reports 2nd foot-and-mouth disease case

South Korea on Friday reported its second confirmed case of foot-and-mouth disease of the season at a local farm, some three weeks after the first case was confirmed in Incheon, just west of Seoul, authorities said. The latest case was reported at a beef cattle farm in the city of Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, according to the government's central headquarters for FMD response. FMD is an acute infectious viral disease that causes illness in cows, pigs, goats and other cloven-hoofed animals. It does

By The Korea Herald