Foot and Mouth Disease Explodes in South Africa

[Beck]

This won't make hunting buffalo any cheaper, that's for sure.

https://www.science.org/content/article/foot-and-mouth-disease-explodes-south-africa-experts-warn-threats-other-countries?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=WeeklyLatestNews&et_rid=49111673&et_cid=5944876

 

[etsonaut]

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

 

[pilar]

Dang , I guess it could be worse? It could have been Rinderpest! Which is 100% lethal
HMD will definitely have an effect on dairy, beef cattle and pigs ! But there is a vaccine farmers can use to reduce their losses.
Will have to wait for what action the government will take.

 

[375Fox]

I don’t think this has any effect on buffalo? I’d think there would be some movement restrictions added to the put and take places though. Might put the self sustaining herds marketing to the test.

 

[V.Veritas]

I’m quite sure that I read somewhere that Dr. Kevin Robertson mentioned that virtually ALL cape buffalo 2 years old and older are carrying the foot mouth disease. He practiced his profession in Zimbabwe. Hence the statement regarding Kruger National Park being the only reservoir of the disease is wrong.
If this statement is wrong, what else is wrong?!? Just because an article is published, it does not mean it is correct. Do you remember the Lancet scandal?!?

 

[375Fox]

I’m quite sure that I read somewhere that Dr. Kevin Robertson mentioned that virtually ALL cape buffalo 2 years old and older are carrying the foot mouth disease. He practiced his profession in Zimbabwe. Hence the statement regarding Kruger National Park being the only reservoir of the disease is wrong.
If this statement is wrong, what else is wrong?!? Just because an article is published, it does not mean it is correct. Do you remember the Lancet scandal?!?

The article is about South Africa not the rest of Africa. Foot and mouth was previously contained to Kruger and some surrounding areas. The buffalo on farms in South Africa were disease free allowing free movement. The risk isn’t to buffalo. It’s to cattle and South African exports.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Story headline should read: Oops....

"outbreaks in this control zone started increasing around 2010"
"warned that “we’re sitting on a time bomb” in 2018. The next year, an FMD outbreak occurred on a cattle farm in Limpopo province,"
Double Oops, let it spread to all 9 provinces.

Will have to wait for what action the government will take.

Multiple governments have been playing their part already apparently.

Crippled, eliminated surveillance:
"FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases, which supports detection, containment, and prevention of animal disease outbreaks globally, is in trouble after the United States, which provided 90% of its funding, withdrew its support last year."

Eliminated vaccination production 20 years ago.
"But vaccines are in short supply, as South Africa stopped making its own in 2006."



It will be of interest to see if this leads to more importation bans that impact hunting.


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[375Fox]

It will be of interest to see if this leads to more importation bans that impact hunting.

This was in SCI newsletter last week.

Botswana Suspends Some Hunting Due to Foot & Mouth Outbreak - Safari Club

SCI has learned that Botswana has suspended hunting in numerous areas due to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Hunters with upcoming safaris in that

safariclub.org

 

[BRICKBURN]

..and the boulder starts rolling down the hill.

 

[leslie hetrick]

Dang , I guess it could be worse? It could have been Rinderpest! Which is 100% lethal
HMD will definitely have an effect on dairy, beef cattle and pigs ! But there is a vaccine farmers can use to reduce their losses.
Will have to wait for what action the government will take.

most likely little to none.

 

[Killingtime]

This won't make hunting buffalo any cheaper, that's for sure.

https://www.science.org/content/article/foot-and-mouth-disease-explodes-south-africa-experts-warn-threats-other-countries?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=WeeklyLatestNews&et_rid=49111673&et_cid=5944876

I think Dr. Kevin Robertson said most buffalo have foot and mouth in Zim and I would assume most of Africa. He said that’s how he got into hunting buffalo was as a culler to keep them out of cattle

 

[375Fox]

I think Dr. Kevin Robertson said most buffalo have foot and mouth in Zim and I would assume most of Africa. He said that’s how he got into hunting buffalo was as a culler to keep them out of cattle

They do, but Namibia has a veterinary fence and won’t allow buffalo on farms. I haven’t seen but Botswana has a veterinary fence also. Both are designed to keep foot and mouth north of that line. Things fell apart in Zimbabwe after 2000. Foot and mouth impacts a country’s ability to export.

 

[CarsonG]

..and the boulder starts rolling down the hill.

I was in Botswana with Tholo safaris about a month ago and they stopped all hunting of hoofed animals the last day we were there. Luckily we were pretty well wrapped up by that point. I was told the next day the outfitters had spoken to the government officials and it was supposed to get opened back up.
Also, according to my PH it will affect buffalo.

 

[CarsonG]

They do, but Namibia has a veterinary fence and won’t allow buffalo on farms. I haven’t seen but Botswana has a veterinary fence also. Both are designed to keep foot and mouth north of that line. Things fell apart in Zimbabwe after 2000. Foot and mouth impacts a country’s ability to export.

Botswana has not maintained their fence, it won’t be hard for buffalo to get through from what I was told.

 

[Killingtime]

They do, but Namibia has a veterinary fence and won’t allow buffalo on farms. I haven’t seen but Botswana has a veterinary fence also. Both are designed to keep foot and mouth north of that line. Things fell apart in Zimbabwe after 2000. Foot and mouth impacts a country’s ability to export.

I saw your post after I posted about the disease free buffalo in SA high fences I didn’t know that they were clean and that is good to know. Is a veterinary fence like a high fence?

 

[375Fox]

Botswana has not maintained their fence, it won’t be hard for buffalo to get through from what I was told.

The Namibian fence isn’t that well maintained either, but there is a line and there are checkpoints to stop the movement of cattle.

 

[375Fox]

I saw your post after I posted about the disease free buffalo in SA high fences I didn’t know that they were clean and that is good to know. Is a veterinary fence like a high fence?

Yes high fence generally running east to west across northern Namibia.