日本政府口蹄疫で国連専門家チームの受け入れ断る

2010.05.21 共同通信
【ローマ共同】
日本政府は、宮崎県内で拡大している口蹄疫封じ込めのため、
国連食糧農業機関（ＦＡＯ）が派遣を提案した口蹄疫専門家チームの受け入れを断った。
在ローマ日本大使館を通じて２１日までに、ローマのＦＡＯ本部に伝えた。
日本側は「ワクチン使用などの対策を行っている最中で現在は受け入れを考えていない」
とした上で「今後もＦＡＯから適切な助言を得たい」と答えたという。
ＦＡＯのファン・ルブロス首席獣医官は、世界の口蹄疫封じ込めの経験と知識を持つＦＡＯが、
助言や勧告のため日本に専門家チームを派遣する用意があるとの提案をしていた。

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20100521p2g00m0dm040000c.html

Gov't to compensate farmers for losses due to foot-and-mouth disease

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The farm ministry on Friday unveiled the government's additional measures over the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Miyazaki Prefecture to compensate farmers for slaughtered cows and pigs at market values, rather than uniform rates as initially planned.

The government will also shoulder the cost of feed for the domesticated animals until their slaughter.

In Saito, Miyazaki, a cow suspected to be infected with the disease was found at a farm, the municipal office said. If the infection is confirmed in tests, it means the disease has spread to two cities and four towns in the prefecture.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries also decided to pay farmers 59,000 yen for each slaughtered cow as financial support for them until resumption of their operations and to pay farmers for rents of land lots used to bury the slaughtered livestock.

Farmers will also receive the state subsidy to lease cows and pigs when they restart their work.

While farm minister Hirotaka Akamatsu told a press conference Friday morning that he would like to begin vaccination on the same day, senior vice farm minister Masahiko Yamada said in Miyazaki that it would be difficult to start it Friday as no agreement has been reached with the local authorities.

Meanwhile, the Japanese government has declined a proposal by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization to send an expert team to contain the escalating infection in Miyazaki.

Japan told the Rome-based FAO through the Japanese Embassy there that Japan would like to continue taking proper advice from FAO.

(Mainichi Japan) May 21, 2010