# The Free State Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed that case of foot-and-mouth disease in Metsimaholo Local Municipality. It says the source of the outbreak is linked to feedlot in one of the neighbouring provinces. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the Free State to two. The department says the affected farm has been placed under quarantine, and all farms within a ten-kilometer radius have been notified and place under precautionary quarantine until surveillance is completed.
Free State Agriculture Department confirms one case of foot-and-mouth disease in Metsimaholo