Foot and mouth disease: government media suggests Partizán may be responsible for the spread, Rábapordány site denies

Close to peaceful Easter peace prevailed on Holy Saturday at the state border with Hungary in connection with the acute foot-and-mouth disease. The controls were regular. Day before, the fifth outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and another mass animal grave caused excitement. The turbulence caused a dairy farm in the Hungarian Rábapordány in the restricted zone of the county of Győr-Moson-Sopron. The slaughter of 874 animals was reported. The re…

After the virus appeared in Rábapordány, government media began to suggest that the Partizán reporting crew may have brought the virus to the site. According to the site owner, they had not even been there.

The livestock farm in Rábapordány infected with the foot-and-mouth disease virus will be liquidated within hours, said István Nagy, Minister of Agriculture. The disciplined cooperation of all livestock keepers is needed to stop the foot-and-mouth disease virus.

Cases of highly contagious disease were detected on the border with Austria. Travellers – also from the Düren district – should therefore be particularly careful.

Sticky foot and mouth disease also appeared in the settlement of Szabolcs Bóna, but as he writes, no press workers visited the animals.

An epidemiological investigation is underway to find out how the virus could have "jumped 60 kilometers" compared to previously infected colonies.