An eastern German region says it is lifting a ban on the transport of animals that was imposed last weekend after foot-and-mouth disease was detected in a buffalo herd.
German authorities are to lift an emergency ordinance to stop the spread of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease at the end of the day, the agriculture ministry in the eastern state of Brandenburg said on Friday.
Germany has no new cases of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease with a suspect case on Thursday not confirmed, German agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on German radio on Friday. Germany has only one case of the disease,
German authorities said on Tuesday they had found no new cases of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease following intensive testing around the area where the first case was confirmed last week.
Germany's meat and dairy exports outside the EU face severe restrictions after the country’s first case of the livestock disease foot-and-mouth was confirmed on Friday, the country's agriculture ministry said.
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at a livestock farm outside of Berlin has raised alarm among farmers across the country, even as testing efforts have not yet turned up further cases of the disease.
Animal transports have been banned in a state surrounding Berlin and the capital’s two zoos have closed as a precaution after foot-and-mouth disease was detected in a buffalo herd just outside the cit
The outbreak of food-and-mouth disease in Germany could have wide-ranging implications. Here's what will happen step-by-step.
Assessing the fallout on meat and dairy exports and supply from foot-and-mouth being discovered in an animal in Germany.
For the first time in nearly 40 years, an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been confirmed on the outskirts of Berlin.
Foot-and-mouth disease has been found in Germany in a herd of water buffalo in Hönow, Brandenburg, just outside Berlin. This is, reports Reuters, the first time the disease has been found in the country in almost 40 years.
Germany on Friday registered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo on a farm near Berlin, the country's first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988.