Year of publication 2005

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Pages 7p.

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Author Animal Production and Health Division

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Product type Book (series)

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Series title EMPRES Watch

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The confirmation of FMD virus type Asia-1 infection in 2005 in cattle in Hong Kong Special Administrative region (Hong Kong SAR), and subsequently from widely dispersed location on the Chinese mainland, represents a major eastwards shift in the known distribution of this virus type. Extensive spread within the country may increase risk to neighbouring countries. One possibility that this may already have occurred was the receipt on 15th June by FAO of a report of Asia-1 infection in an area of t he Russian Federation in the Amur region, close to the Chinese border, subsequently reported to the OIE on the 16th June

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Language English

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