{"id":222604,"date":"2026-02-02T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-foot-and-mouth-outbreak-hits-matabeleland-south\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:06:01","slug":"zimbabwe-foot-and-mouth-outbreak-hits-matabeleland-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-foot-and-mouth-outbreak-hits-matabeleland-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Foot and Mouth Outbreak Hits Matabeleland South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Directorate of Veterinary Services has confirmed an outbreak of Foot-and-mouth Disease (FMD) in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province prompting the implementation of strict control and containment measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In a statement, the Directorate said the outbreak was reported on 5 January 2026 at the Maholi and Hannavale dip tanks in Mangwe District an area bordering Botswana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Investigations indicate that the source of the infection may have been buffaloes sighted in nearby communal areas&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290360.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate of Veterinary Services has confirmed an outbreak of Foot-and-mouth Disease (FMD) in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province prompting the implementation of strict control and containment measures. In a statement, the Directorate said the outbreak was reported on 5 January 2026 at the Maholi and Hannavale dip tanks in Mangwe District an area bordering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,14035,7111,5290,14036,257,6582,5069,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-222604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-foot","tag-hits","tag-matabeleland","tag-mouth","tag-news","tag-outbreak","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}