Indonesia grapples with resurgent FMD

JAKARTA: Indonesia is coping with the re-emergence of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which spreads among cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep, pigs and goats.

During the past weeks, thousands of cattle in six districts in Aceh and East Java provinces had reportedly been infected with the highly contagious viral disease resulting in the death of more than a dozen cattle. The first confirmed case of cattle was found in the district of Gresik in East Java on April 28.