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South Africa's Critical Step: First Shipment of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccines Arrives
South Africa aims to vaccinate 80% of its 14 million cattle by December under a 10-Year Eradication Strategy to restore export markets and strengthen biosecurity.
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Steenhuisen receives first FMD vaccine shipment at OR Tambo
Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen has received the first shipment of one million high-potency Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines. He accepted the delivery on Saturday, 21 February 2026, at OR Tambo International Airport. The vaccines, sourced from Biogénesis Bagó in Argentina, mark the opening phase of a national vaccination campaign aimed at protecting South Africa’s livestock industry. Steenhuisen said an additional five million dose…
In South Africa, the Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, announced the massive importation of more than one million vaccines between Saturday and Sunday, February 222, in order to combat the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic that affects the country's cattle in particular. This mass investment is part of a much larger vaccination plan initiated by the South African government. Indeed, the epidemic is not without consequences.
In South Africa, a health emergency broke out a couple of weeks ago due to outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and there were no vaccines to contain the disease and the first to be imported from Botswana were of very low quality. Thus, the officials of the African Ministry of Agriculture sighed of relief this Saturday with the arrival of the first shipment of Argentine anti-aftosa vaccines: it is a load of 1 million “high potenti” doses that als…
One million FMD vaccines land as Steenhuisen ramps up national rollout
By Akani Nkuna Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen on Saturday oversaw the arrival of 1 million high-potency vaccines to fight Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), saying the shipment would reinforce biosecurity and support intensified measures to safeguard livestock, farmers and rural livelihoods. The vaccines, sourced from Argentine manufacturer Biogénesis Bagó, arrived at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg as part of a supply plan anno…
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