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omonatheydidSouth Korea's Farm Minister Yoo Jeong-bok has offered to step down owning responsibility for the most severe outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in the country's history.
"I plan to do my utmost to try to contain the FMD (foot-and-mouth disease) outbreak as soon as possible, and once the situation comes under control will step down," he told reporters on Friday in apparent response to criticism by politicians and the media about Seoul's response to the disease.
The highly-contagious animal disease returned to the country in late November, just eight months after authorities claimed to have eradicated the virus.
The latest outbreak, first confirmed in Andong, south-east of Seoul, has since spread to cattle farms in six provinces and two major cities.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries ordered quarantine effort since a confirmed infection on November 29.
More than 2.88 million livestock have so far been culled at a cost exceeding $1.34 billion and tens of thousands of others vaccinated to prevent the disease from spreading to other cloven-hoofed animals.
The government is also simultaneously fighting an outbreak of bird flu, which was reported in late December.
It is barely five months since Yoo took office as Farm Minister.
He should step down for dumping the pigs alive into a big hole
Source: rttnews
"I plan to do my utmost to try to contain the FMD (foot-and-mouth disease) outbreak as soon as possible, and once the situation comes under control will step down," he told reporters on Friday in apparent response to criticism by politicians and the media about Seoul's response to the disease.
The highly-contagious animal disease returned to the country in late November, just eight months after authorities claimed to have eradicated the virus.
The latest outbreak, first confirmed in Andong, south-east of Seoul, has since spread to cattle farms in six provinces and two major cities.
The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries ordered quarantine effort since a confirmed infection on November 29.
More than 2.88 million livestock have so far been culled at a cost exceeding $1.34 billion and tens of thousands of others vaccinated to prevent the disease from spreading to other cloven-hoofed animals.
The government is also simultaneously fighting an outbreak of bird flu, which was reported in late December.
It is barely five months since Yoo took office as Farm Minister.
He should step down for dumping the pigs alive into a big hole
Source: rttnews
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:32 pm (UTC)Yes. I can understand the need for culling to prevent the spread, but good lord that was beyond inhumane.
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Date: 2011-01-29 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-29 01:07 am (UTC)MTE. So horrifying. I cried when I first saw news of this.