The day after declaring the epidemic, the COA convened a multi-ministerial emergency committee, which decided to call for mass slaughtering of all hogs in any farm where cases of FMD occur. Counties in southern Taiwan even called on the military for help in carrying out this decision.
農委會在宣佈疫區的次日隨即召開跨部會危機處理小組，決定發佈宰殺令，凡傳出疫情的養豬場，一律撲殺全場豬隻，南部縣市還出動國軍協助。