The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association has sounded an alarm calling for the U.S. to stop importing beef from the southern African country of Nambia because of reports of recent Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks there.
While imports from southern Namibia from the so-called FMD free zone are allowed – as determined by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) – the cattlemen’s group says vaccination is not practiced there. It says the region’s African buffalo populations are considered to be persistent carriers of FMD.