Nearly 270 pigs in Vietnam's southern Ca Mau province have suspectedly died of foot-and-mouth disease, local newspaper People's Army reported Tuesday.

Testing on 19 samples from 268 pigs which died last month indicated that they could have been infected with foot-and-mouth disease. Nearly 1,840 pigs in the province have been infected with common diseases and suspected foot-and-mouth disease in the last few months.

Local veterinary forces is strengthening vaccination among pigs and tightening control over slaughterhouses. They vaccinated over 52,000 pigs against common disease in June.

However, no effective treatment for the suspected foot-and- mouth disease in Ca Mau is available now, the report said.

Source: Xinhua