Disease Information

20 April 2001
Vol. 14 - No. 16

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN ARGENTINA
Follow-up report No. 5

See also: 13 April 2001, 6 April 2001, 30 March 2001, 23 March 2001, 16 March 2001, 23 February 2001, 6 October 2000, 22 September 2000, 15 September 2000, 8 September 2000, 1 September 2000, 25 August 2000, 19 August 2000, 11 August 2000

Summary of data received up to 17 April 2001 from Dr Eduardo Jesús Greco, Deputy Executive President, National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (SENASA), Secretariat for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Buenos Aires:

End of previous report period: 10 April 2001 (see Disease Information, 14 [15], 84, dated 13 April 2001).

End of this report period: 14 April 2001.

New outbreaks:

Location	No. of outbreaks
Buenos Aires province	43
Cordoba province	6
Entre Rios province	2
La Pampa province	7
San Luis province	3
Santa Fe province	7
Santiago del Estero province	1

Total number of animals in the new outbreaks:

species	susceptible	cases	deaths	destroyed	slaughtered
...	66,537	4,124	...	...	...

Summary of outbreaks confirmed up to 14 April 2001:

Location	No. of outbreaks
Buenos Aires province	219
Cordoba province	15
Entre Rios province	2
La Pampa province	25
San Luis province	11
Santa Fe province	18
Santiago del Estero province	1
Total No. of outbreaks	291

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