{"id":32745,"date":"2026-04-22T15:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32745"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:53:38","slug":"sa-gets-more-foot-and-mouth-vaccine-doses-as-it-battles-to-contain-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-gets-more-foot-and-mouth-vaccine-doses-as-it-battles-to-contain-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"SA gets more foot-and-mouth vaccine doses as it battles to contain outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) government said on Wednesday that it had received two million doses of foot-and-mouth disease \u200bvaccine from Turkey, as authorities intensify efforts to \u200ccontain the country&#8217;s worst outbreak in years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The vaccine, supplied by Turkey&#8217;s Dollvet, will be distributed to provinces in the coming days \u200bbased on animal population and risk, the agriculture \u200bdepartment said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A further four million \u2060doses have been ordered from Dollvet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Foot-and-mouth is a highly \u200bcontagious viral infection that mainly affects cattle, causing painful \u200bblisters in the mouth and on hooves. Although it is not often fatal, especially among adult cattle, it affects livestock productivity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The government \u200bhas faced criticism from livestock farmers, who say they \u200bare suffering heavy losses over its handling of the outbreak, with \u200csome \u2060threatening legal action.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An additional five million vaccine doses have been ordered from Argentina, with delivery expected in two batches once import approval is granted by the SA \u200bHealth Products \u200bRegulatory Authority, the \u2060statement said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In February, SA rolled out its first foot-and-mouth vaccine in 20 years in \u200ba bid to ease a shortage of \u200binoculation \u2060doses.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The government is aiming to vaccinate 80% of SA&#8217;s national cattle herd, estimated at about 14 million.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The agriculture \u2060department said \u200bit would allocate some vaccine \u200bdoses to the pork industry, as pigs can also be affected by \u200bfoot-and-mouth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14619,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-32745","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A further four million \u2060doses have been ordered from Dollvet.","published_date":"","news_description":"A further four million \u2060doses have been ordered from Dollvet.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32745","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\/32745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32746,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32745\/revisions\/32746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}