MIYAZAKI (Kyodo) The Miyazaki Prefectural Government said Saturday it has finished slaughtering and burying six stud bulls to combat foot-and-mouth disease, a day after a row over the fate of the animals was settled.
The culling of the bulls brought to an end the slaughter of over 289,000 local livestock animals to contain a foot-and-mouth epidemic, unless new cases of infection are found.
The disposal also paves the way for the prefecture to lift the ban on moving animals around the farm that was home to the bulls in the town of Takanabe. This leaves restrictions only on an area around the city of Miyazaki, at least until July 26, after most of the hardest-hit areas were cleared of restrictions midnight Thursday.