|
 It also said there was another suspected case at a different
location, although that was yet to be confirmed.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said in a
statement that the disease was unlikely to spread widely as it was
one of three types of the illness that the nation inoculates
against.
Nonetheless, the government said it would put in place a nationwide
standstill order for farms with cloven-hoofed livestock and related
transport for 30 hours from 0900 GMT on Monday.
The confirmation comes as Asia's fourth largest economy has been
grappling with a nationwide spread of virulent bird flu virus,
leading to the culling of over 30 million farm birds.
The agriculture ministry said in its statement on Monday that
foot-and-mouth had been detected at a dairy farm in Boeun county,
about 170 kilometers (106 miles) southeast of Seoul. All 195 cows
raised on the farm had been culled to contain the disease.
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It added that it was upping its foot-and-mouth alert to the
second-highest level as another suspected case of the disease was
reported on Monday at a cattle farm in the southeastern city of
Jeongeup, according to the statement.
Foot-and-mouth was last discovered in the country at a hog farm in
March 2016.
(Reporting By Jane Chung; Editing by Bernard Orr and Joseph Radford)
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