{"id":244035,"date":"2026-09-11T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kgatleng-targets-55-000-cattle-in-mass-vaccination\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:00:06","slug":"botswana-kgatleng-targets-55-000-cattle-in-mass-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kgatleng-targets-55-000-cattle-in-mass-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Kgatleng Targets 55 000 Cattle in Mass Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mochudi \u2014 Authorities will today launch a mass vaccination campaign targeting about 55 000 cattle in Kgatleng East, to intensify efforts to contain Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking in an interview, Ministry of Lands and Agriculture FMD coordinator, Dr Odireleng Tholowane said the primary objective of the current response plan was to prevent the disease from spreading into neighbouring disease-free regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">To execute the rollout, Dr Tholowane said 15 to 20 teams&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609100118.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mochudi \u2014 Authorities will today launch a mass vaccination campaign targeting about 55 000 cattle in Kgatleng East, to intensify efforts to contain Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the district. Speaking in an interview, Ministry of Lands and Agriculture FMD coordinator, Dr Odireleng Tholowane said the primary objective of the current response plan was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,5086,17610,7883,257,254,7317,14083],"class_list":["post-244035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cattle","tag-kgatleng","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targets","tag-vaccination"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244035","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=244035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}