For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com or<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />South Korea’s President is promising to curb the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in his country. Authorities have so far destroyed around 130 thousand cattle and about 2 million pigs to contain the outbreak.<br /><br />South Korean President Lee Myung-bak pledged Monday to cope with the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea.<br /><br />So far more than 2.5 million pigs and cattle have been culled to contain the outbreak.<br /><br />The agriculture ministry of Asia's fourth biggest economy says the infected animals would be buried.<br /><br />[Lee Myung-Bak, South Korean President]:<br />“This is the first time our country had to cull more than 130,000 cattle and 2 million pigs.”<br /><br />The South Korean government is also using vaccines brought from two companies in England and Holland.<br /><br />[Lee Myung-Bak, South Korean President]:<br />“Currently, England and Holland are producing internationally-certified vaccines, but I will seriously consider producing vaccines ourselves.”<br /><br />President Lee says the country might face large-scale damage from the disease.<br /><br />The outbreak is expected to subside before the Lunar New Year holiday at the beginning of February, as most animals would have received their vaccinations by then.<br /><br />Major livestock markets across South Korea have been closed now for more than a month.
