Foot-and-mouth disease hits 10 provinces of Vietnam

HANOI, Feb. 25 (Chinese media) -- Foot-and-mouth disease hit another Mekong Delta

Can Tho province of Vietnam, raising the number of infected provinces to ten,

according to Department of Animal Health under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural

Development on Wednesday.

The disease has newly broken out in Can Tho province with six pigs

contracted the deadly disease, according to the department.

The disease has so far this year broken out in ten provinces of Vietnam,

including four northern provinces of Hoa Binh, Bac Kan, Quang Ninh, Phu Tho,

four central provinces of Nghe An, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, the

Central highlands province of Kon Tum, and the newly-infected Mekong Delta

province of Can Tho, said the department.

The foot-and-mouth disease in livestock hit 14 Vietnamese provinces in

2008, affecting more than 2,400 bulls and buffaloes and 67 pigs.

The ministry vows to speed up information campaigns, restructure poultry

trading, and raise hygiene standards in slaughter houses this year.