Almost forty years after the last epidemic of its kind, Germany is trying to contain a new foot-and-mouth crisis that is worrying neighbouring countries, while the European Commission said on Thursday 16 January that it was monitoring the situation closely.
The German Minister for Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, held talks on the subject with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, on Thursday.
Last week, three water buffalo died in a pasture due to foot-and-mouth disease...