For the second time this year, a European Union country has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

On March 7, Hungary confirmed the presence of the disease on a dairy farm near the border with Slovakia. There are around 1,400 head of cattle on the farm.

Owners of the farm first spotted symptoms in a group of heifers on March 3 and isolated the animals. Tests by veterinary services over the days that followed confirmed FMD.

A protection zone with a radius of 3 kilometres, and a surveillance zone with a radius of 10 kilometres are in place.

These cases come two months after Germany confirmed its first outbreak of FMD in 35 years.

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