| Heck, they've had that for decades. |
SEOUL - North Korea has an outbreak of highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease and asked the South to provide it with medication, South KoreaÂ’s unification minister said on Thursday.
North Korea said it had culled 466 cows and 2,630 pigs since an outbreak of the disease on Jan. 10 at a farm near its capital, Pyongyang, minister Lee Jae-joung told reporters.
| All of which were promptly devoured. |
“We will try to help as soon as possible because there is a concern that it will spread to our region,” Lee told a weekly briefing.
Last week, the Paris-based Office International des Epizooties, the world body that governs animal health, said on its Web site (www.oie.int) the North had had a foot-and-mouth outbreak. It reported the same numbers of animals culled.
Foot-and-mouth is highly contagious for cloven-hoofed animals such as pigs and cows but harmless to humans. |