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  Official name: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea* (DPRK); aka North Korea
  WRLFMD code: NKR
  FMD first recorded: Untyped (1911), Asia 1 (2007)
  FMD eradicated: not known
 

Subsequent outbreaks:

1934 (Hamkyoung province)
  Serotypes (last rpt): not known (1960), Asia 1 (2007)
  Current status:  
  Useful websites:  
               
    WRLFMD batch no. Date
Received
Type Virus isolates Topotype Strain
  WRLFMD-2007-00011 30/04/2007 O† NKR/1/2007 ME-SA vaccine-like
  WRLFMD-2007-00022 06/07/2007 Asia 1 NKR/2/2007 - -
               
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*, dates prior to 1945 refer to North and South Korea as a united country
†, probably a laboratory contaminant
IP, sequencing in progress
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