Steenhuisen announces country’s first-ever ten-year FMD elimination strategy

For the first time, South Africa has a long-term Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) strategy to take it to FMD-free status, eventually without vaccination.

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen on January 14 announced the Department of Agriculture’s (DoA’s) ten-year phased plan starting with stabilisation, progressing to consolidation and eventually removal of vaccination.