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Hungary reports first foot-and-mouth outbreak in over 50 years
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Posted on March 7, 2025
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
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1 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
Hungary reports its first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in over 50 years, affecting a cattle farm in Gyor. The disease impacts cloven-hoofed animals but is not dangerous to humans.
PARIS (Reuters) - Hungary has reported a first case of foot-and-mouth disease in more than 50 years, on a cattle farm in the northwest of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Friday, citing Hungarian authorities.
Foot-and-mouth disease poses no danger to humans but causes fever and mouth blisters in cloven-hoofed ruminants such as cattle, swine, sheep and goats, and outbreaks often lead to trade restrictions.
The outbreak, discovered in the city of Gyor, is the first outbreak of foot-and-mouth reported since 1973, according to the report released by the WOAH.
(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide, editing by Gus Trompiz)
The first case was reported on a cattle farm in the city of Gyor.
This is the first outbreak reported since 1973, marking over 50 years.
Foot-and-mouth disease poses no danger to humans but affects cloven-hoofed ruminants.
The disease causes fever and mouth blisters in animals such as cattle, swine, sheep, and goats.
Outbreaks often lead to trade restrictions, impacting the livestock industry.
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