Austria shuts dozens of border crossings with Hungary and Slovakia due to foot-and-mouth outbreak

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Austria shuts dozens of border crossings with Hungary and Slovakia due to foot-and-mouth outbreak  The disease poses no danger to humans and primarily affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals like swine, sheep and goats.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/06/austria-closes-off-24-border-crossings-with-hungary-slovakia-after-foot-and-mouth-disease-  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Austria has closed 24 small border crossings with Hungary and Slovakia in an effort to

00:05prevent foot-and-mouth disease from entering the country.

00:08Slovakia declared an emergency situation on Tuesday after the disease, commonly known

00:12as FMD, was detected on three farms.

00:16Hungary had its first outbreak of the highly infectious disease in 50 years on Wednesday.

00:21The disease, which poses no danger to humans, mostly affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed

00:26animals like swine, sheep and goats, causing fever and mouth blisters.

00:31Outbreaks often lead to trade restrictions and culls of some livestock.

00:35Austrian health authorities are conducting rigorous checks at the few open border crossings.

00:40Cars and pedestrians crossing on foot have to pass over an epidemic rug to prevent the

00:44virus from spreading.

00:46Police are also searching vehicles at border points for meat products which are restricted

00:50while this emergency persists.

00:53Authorities are also preparing contingencies in the case FMD is detected at an Austrian

00:57farm.

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