Hungary reports first foot-and-mouth outbreak in over 50 years

PARIS (Reuters) – Hungary has reported a first case of foot-and-mouth disease in more than 50 years, on a cattle farm in the northwest of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Friday, citing Hungarian authorities.

Foot-and-mouth disease poses no danger to humans but causes fever and mouth blisters in cloven-hoofed ruminants such as cattle, swine, sheep and goats, and outbreaks often lead to trade restrictions.

The outbreak, discovered in the city of Gyor, is the first outbreak of foot-and-mouth reported since 1973, according to the report released by the WOAH.

(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide, editing by Gus Trompiz)