Foot-and-mouth disease hit another Mekong Delta Can Tho province of Vietnam, raising the number of infected provinces to ten, Xinhua quoted the Department of Animal Health under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as saying. The disease has newly broken out in Can Tho province with six pigs contracted the deadly disease, according to the department. The disease has so far this year broken out in ten provinces of Vietnam, including four northern provinces of Hoa Binh, Bac Kan, Quang Ninh, Phu Tho, four central provinces of Nghe An, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, the Central highlands province of Kon Tum, and the newly-infected Mekong Delta province of Can Tho, said the department. The foot-and-mouth disease in livestock hit 14 Vietnamese provinces in 2008, affecting more than 2,400 bulls and buffaloes. The ministry vows to speed up information campaigns, restructure poultry trading, and raise hygiene standards in slaughter houses this year.
