South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture has imposed a ban on pork imports from Germany following a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the Brandenburg state.

The new cases were detected at a broiler breeder farm in Dangjin, 79 kilometers south of Seoul, and a meat duck farm in Buan, 204 kilometers south of Seoul, according to the central disaster management headquarters for AI outbreaks.

South Korea has banned all pork imports from Germany after a recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in a herd of buffalo in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. The South Korean Ministry of Agriculture announced in a statement on Saturday evening that the ban was effective immediately.

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Germany has detected its first case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) since 1988. It was discovered on Friday (10 January) and traced to water buffalo in Brandenburg, near Berlin.

Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish the source of the country's first outbreak in decades.

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Germany took further steps Monday to limit the potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease, as an outbreak of the virus threatened to hit the country's agricultural exports.

Korea bans German pork imports after foot-and-mouth disease outbreak Korea imposes restrictions on pork imports following a disease report from Germany

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