Foot and mouth disease: New outbreaks and activation of the vaccine bank
Hungary has confirmed two new outbreaks of FMD and Slovakia confirms its fifth, bordering Austria and near the Czech Republic.
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Austria takes action following the second foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Hungary.
Austria extends its surveillance zone after an FMD outbreak on a Hungarian dairy cattle farm with 3,000 animals near the Austrian border.
Hungary reports a second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease near Austria
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Slovakia confirms a fourth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
The location of the new outbreak reinforces the possibility of long-distance airborne transmission, the most likely hypothesis.