South Korea reported on Thursday another outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in a local cattle farm in Pochen in Gyeonggi Province, about a week after the first outbreak in eight years. Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said the government plans to cull about 1,348 heads of livestock in six farms within 500-meter radius of the farm where the second outbreak occurred. In order to prevent further spread, the government also plans to kill livestock suspected of having contracted the highly infectious virus. The foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease that can affect cloven-hoofed animals including pigs, sheep and goats, while humans are hardly affected by the virus.