South Korea reports second FMD outbreak

A fresh outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been reported in South Korea, the country's second case in nearly eight years.

Cows at a farm in Pocheon, north of Seoul, have tested positive for the disease, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

Quarantine workers will slaughter about 1,790 cows, pigs and deer within a 500-metre radius of the outbreak site to prevent the spread of the disease, ministry official Kim Dae-gyun said.

The site is about 3.5 kilometres away from another Pocheon farm where six cows were confirmed to have been infected with the disease -- South Korea's first outbreak since May 2002, Kim said.

South Korea has slaughtered nearly 2,380 animals since the discovery of the first case.