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How bad has the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic been?

We’d know more if the statistics were better collected

South Africa is experiencing its worst foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemic. Farmers have described the huge financial losses as well as hardship for workers and animals when their farms have had outbreaks.
In 2019 the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) withdrew the FMD-free status that most of the country enjoyed. Consequently, our cattle product export markets were badly hit.
This week’s chart shows how FMD cases have surged in recent years, from below 100 a year from 2014 to 2018 (confined to an area near the Kruger National Park), to 32,000 in 2025 across the country. But we are sceptical of these statistics.
There are about 12 to 14-million cattle in the country. If less than 0.3% of them had…

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