The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has reported that KwaZulu Natal has been isolated due to the outbreak of the food and mouth virus.

The virus was said to be isolated from samples taken from a certain dip tank in KwaZulu Natal as well as the feedlot in Gauteng, which has been typed as a SAT 1 and linked to the foot-and-mouth virus outbreak in the northern part of the Kruger National Park.

Also, the discovery that the virus was linked to the 2006 outbreak in the northern part of the Kruger National Park has eased insinuations regarding its origin, as it did not originate from the neighboring country.

Another virus typed as a SAT 3 has been isolated from the buffalo in the Ndumo Game Reserve, and has been linked to the virus discovered near Letaba in the Kruger National Park in 2003.

However, Rony Moremi, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Spokesman, has stated that the disease was being controlled and a second dose of vaccination was already being sent. More than 93,000 cattle have already been vaccinated.