{"id":24013,"date":"2026-02-20T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/officials-racing-to-contain-the-spread-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-sas-western-cape-province\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:46","slug":"officials-racing-to-contain-the-spread-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-sas-western-cape-province","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/officials-racing-to-contain-the-spread-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-sas-western-cape-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials racing to contain the spread of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in SA&#8217;s Western Cape Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Authorities in South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Garden Route are racing to contain the spread of Foot-and-Mouth Disease\u00a0in the Mossel Bay area of the Western Cape Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">So far, two confirmed cases have been identified at farms in Hartenbos, with additional suspected cases still awaiting laboratory confirmation in the George area.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">During his State of the Nation Address last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the outbreak a National Disaster.<\/p>\n<p>It began with a single confirmed case on a dairy farm and the farm was immediately quarantined and vaccinated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A week later, another farm in close proximity tested positive and containment is now the priority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A strict ten-kilometre quarantine zone now surrounds the affected areas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Vehicles have to be disinfected before entering and unnecessary visits to farms have been discouraged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22433,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-24013","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Foot-and-Mouth Disease","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24013","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\/24013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26822,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24013\/revisions\/26822"}],"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=24013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}