Steenhuisen warns that foot-and-mouth outbreak will impact consumers in short term [SOUND]

# Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen has warned that the foot-and-mouth-disease outbreak will affect consumers in the short term. Speaking on the sidelines at the Red Meat Abattoir Association’s 31st conference in Somerset West, Cape Town, he confirmed that 900-thousand doses of vaccine will be rolled out once received from the Botswana Vaccine Institute. The minister says meat transport restrictions is economically affecting abattoirs: