{"id":39418,"date":"2026-07-13T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39418"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:42:24","slug":"sa-farmers-welcome-fmd-vaccine-ruling","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-farmers-welcome-fmd-vaccine-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"SA farmers welcome FMD vaccine ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The farming sector in South Africa (SA) has welcomed the landmark High Court ruling on Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) allowing livestock owners and private entities to independently procure and administer vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This decision successfully stripped the state of its strict monopoly over managing FMD outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The court found that the government&#8217;s centralised restrictions on animal vaccines, lacked a valid legal or scientific basis to prohibit private sector intervention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The judgment is expected to improve disease control by speeding up access to vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22315,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39418","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","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\/39418","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\/39418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39419,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39418\/revisions\/39419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}