Germany, foot-and-mouth disease

Germany has no new foot-and-mouth disease cases, minister says
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 Friday. Germany has only one case of the disease,
Foot-and-mouth cases in Germany's Brandenburg prompt livestock cull
An outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been detected in a herd of water buffaloes in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, not far from Berlin. The outbreak represents the first known cases of FMD in Germany since 1988,
A German region lifts an animal transport ban imposed after foot-and-mouth disease was detected
A ban on transporting cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and other animals such as camels and llamas in Brandenburg state, a large rural region that surrounds Berlin, went into effect on Saturday. The German capital's two zoos also closed as a precaution. An annual agriculture fair, the Green Week, opened in Berlin on Friday without cloven-hoofed animals.
Germany says it has found no more foot-and-mouth cases
Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish the source of the country's first outbreak in decades.
Case of foot-and-mouth disease alarms German livestock farmers
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.
Germany races to contain foot-and-mouth outbreak amid export fears
Germany took further steps Monday to limit the potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease, as an outbreak of the virus threatened to hit the country's agricultural exports.
Germany sees meat exports to EU continuing after foot-and-mouth case
Germany’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday it expects meat and dairy product exports to the European Union to continue despite a case of the foot-and-mouth disease affecting livestock being confirmed last week.
Animal transports banned in German region after foot-and-mouth disease detected
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
German Foot-and-Mouth Seen Wiping Out €1 Billion of Agri Sales
Germany’s agriculture industry faces sales losses of about €1 billion ($1.03 billion) due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has led to export restrictions, farm cooperatives group DRV said.
German authorities to lift emergency ordinance to curb foot-and-mouth disease
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 reports no new foot-and-mouth cases as UK bans meat and dairy imports
Germany says no new cases of foot-and-mouth disease recorded as Britain bans exports of meat and dairy products.
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A bus accident on a highway in northeastern Germany leaves 2 dead
Brandenburg state police spokesperson Beate Kardels said the bus operated by Flixbus, Germany's dominant long-distance bus operator, was heading toward Poland. She didn't immediately have ...
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Germany tackles Brandenburg FMD outbreak
Germany tackles foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Brandenburg as officials race to contain the virus and protect agriculture and trade.