{"id":23389,"date":"2026-02-06T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-province-hit-with-another-foot-and-mouth-disease-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:12","slug":"sa-province-hit-with-another-foot-and-mouth-disease-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-province-hit-with-another-foot-and-mouth-disease-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Province hit with another Foot-and-Mouth disease outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Eastern Cape Province has been hit with another Foot-and-Mouth disease outbreak in the Humansdorp area under the Kouga Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak has affected a farming community in Kruisfontein, impacting their beef business.<\/p>\n<p>Over 30 cattle are showing strong symptoms of Foot-and-Mouth disease and have been put under quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak follows a case that was also reported at Amahlathi Local municipality in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Kruisfontein farming community has over 120 cattle in their farm.<\/p>\n<p>The cattle that have not yet shown signs of the disease are at high risk.<\/p>\n<p>The farmers are closely monitoring the cattle, with some getting sick and adding to the tally of infected animals, with the number growing, the business is impacted<\/p>\n<p>The Kouga Municipality has implemented strict control of roaming animals, with law enforcement engaging communal farmers and monitoring hotspot areas.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers have also been advised to move any animals showing signs of the disease to the designated quarantine camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22433,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23389","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA's Foot-and-Mouth disease outbreak","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26372,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23389\/revisions\/26372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}