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Foot-and-mouth outbreak cuts Namibia's beef exports to the EU

Suspended Namibia's FMD-free status

Namibia's outbreak has stayed inside the Karasburg district: 131 confirmed cases on 18 farms, unchanged since October 14, after a 50-kilometre surveillance sweep of 93 farms ended on October 21. Vaccination has reached 42,286 cattle in the Zambezi Region and 1,296 in the //Kharas Region.

Updated Oct 26

WHO validates Bhutan for eliminating dog-transmitted human rabies

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As of September 2026: Supported WHO's dossier review and documents Bhutan's vaccination strategy

Zero people have died from dog-mediated rabies in Bhutan since June 2023. On September 4, 2026, the World Health Organization validated the country's elimination of dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem, the first such validation in the WHO South-East Asia Region.

Updated Sep 8