FMD Virus Has Entered All Regencies And Cities In East Java And Central Java

Veterinarians are preparing to give vaccine injections to cattle with indications of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Aceh Besar in May 2022. (Antara-Ampelsa)

JAKARTA - Coordinator of the Expert Team for the Task Force for Handling Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Wiku Adisasmito revealed that all regencies and cities in East Java, Central Java, and Bangka Belitung have been exposed to FMD.

"The latest data shows that provinces with all regencies and cities infected with the FMD virus are East Java, Central Java, and Bangka Belitung," Wiku said at an online press conference followed in Jakarta, Thursday, July 7.

In addition, there are a number of provinces with an infection rate of livestock FMD in the district/city above 80 percent, namely West Java (96 percent), West Sumatra (84 percent), Jambi (81 percent), and the Special Region of Yogyakarta (80 percent).

"The thing that is currently important to strive for is to maintain areas that have not been affected by the FMD as much as possible to prevent the entry of this virus into the region. Maluku, North Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, and Papua are islands in Indonesia that have not been affected by FMD," said Wiku, as reported by Antara.

According to the FMD Task Force records, the provinces affected by the FMD infection are Riau, Riau Islands, Aceh, West Sumatra, Bangka Belitung, Bengkulu, North Sumatra, Lampung, South Sumatra, Jambi, Banten.

Furthermore, Bali, East Java, West Java, Central Java, DI Yogyakarta, DKI Jakarta, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan and West Nusa Tenggara.

Meanwhile, the provinces that were not affected by the FMD were East Kalimantan, East Nusa Tenggara, West Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Southeast Sulawesi, Maluku, North Maluku, Papua and West Papua.

Previously, there were 317,889 cases of FMD in even-conjured livestock spread across 21 provinces in Indonesia as of Thursday. The FMD case also spread in 231 regencies/cities, and from this figure 106,925 animals of them recovered.