{"id":23506,"date":"2026-02-09T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-milk-producers-suspect-foot-and-mouth-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:17","slug":"sa-milk-producers-suspect-foot-and-mouth-cases","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-milk-producers-suspect-foot-and-mouth-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA milk producers suspect foot-and-mouth cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Milk Producers Organisation (MPO) in South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Western Cape Province says a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease\u00a0in a dairy herd in the Mossel Bay area, has been brought to their attention.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div>In a statement, the MPO said further information will be communicated as soon as there are any developments or confirmation.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div>The organisation has made an appeal to tighten and strictly apply bio-security measures.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div>This means restricting movement of animals and vehicles, ensuring proper disinfection of equipment and vehicles and not allowing unauthorised persons access to farms.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22433,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-23506","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Milk Producers Organisation suspect case of foot-and-mouth disease\u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23506","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\/23506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26449,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23506\/revisions\/26449"}],"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=23506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}