Thorough Quarantine of Animals and Plants during the Summer Vacation Period (Request for Cooperation from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
08/02/2023
We would like to once again express our appreciation for the great cooperation of all relevant ministries and agencies in preventing the entry of African swine fever (ASF), a serious infectious disease of livestock, and the mandarin fruit fly, a serious pest of fruit trees and other plants. With regard to animal quarantine, outbreaks of infectious diseases of livestock continue to occur throughout Asia and Europe, including the first outbreak of ASF in Singapore in February of this year and the first confirmed outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea in four years in May of this year, and the risk of such diseases entering...