Mozambique Purchases Over One Million Vaccines Against Foot and Mouth Disease

Maputo — The Mozambique Veterinary Authority intends to import over a million doses of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease to respond to the outbreak confirmed in the districts of Chifunde, Marávia and Moatize, in the central province of Tete.

The acquisition of the vaccines, to be administered to about 500,000 cattle in the high-risk areas, comes at a time when South Africa is under an outbreak of the O strain of foot-and-mouth disease.

Of the total vaccines being imported, 450,000 are…