South Africa has received a historic shipment of 3.5 million doses of foot-and-mouth disease vaccines, prompting an urgent call for rapid vaccination efforts to protect the national cattle herd and ensure food security.

South Africa has received the first batch of a record 3.5 million-dose consignment of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines from Argentina.

FMD Response SA says private importers must be allowed to supply farmers without delay