Slovakia: 2025 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

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Source: https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/slovakia...es-following-foot-and-mouth-disease-outbreak/


Slovakia enacts emergency measures following foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
By Dimsumdaily Hong Kong -
7:04AM Sat March 22, 2025

22nd March 2025 – (Bratislava) Slovakia has introduced a series of emergency measures following the confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on three livestock farms in the southern villages of Medvedov, Narad, and Baka, authorities announced on Friday.

Agriculture Minister Richard Takac revealed the outbreak during a news conference, emphasising the need for immediate action. Slovak Chief Veterinary Surgeon Martin Chudy stated that all susceptible animals within a three-kilometre radius of the confirmed cases will be culled to prevent further spread of the disease.​..

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30. March 2025 at 21:56
Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders

Slovakia has identified a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at a large cattle farm in the western village of Plavecký Štvrtok, about 30 kilometres north-west of Bratislava and not far from the Austrian and Czech borders.

The affected site, confirmed by Agriculture Minister Richard Takáč (Smer) ahead of a national crisis team meeting on Sunday, belongs to FirstFarms, one of the largest agricultural groups in the country. The Danish-owned company houses around 3,000 cows, 150 heifers and 600 calves at the site, with additional livestock operations nearby in Malacky, Stupava and Suchohrad.

Takáč said the farm had had previous contact with a site in Lével, Hungary, where the disease is also present. However, experts consider airborne transmission unlikely due to the intervening Little Carpathians mountain range and the 70-kilometre distance from previously affected farms in southern Slovakia, according to Denník N.

The outbreak marks Slovakia’s fifth confirmed case of foot-and-mouth disease in recent weeks, following infections in the Dunajská Streda district villages of Medveďov, Ňárad, Baka (March 21) and Lúč na Ostrove (March 25) — just 10 to 20 kilometres from the Hungarian border. Slovak authorities had previously blamed cross-border wind transmission for the initial spread...

 

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5. April 2025 at 22:27
Another outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in western Slovakia
Situation serious according to Interior Minister.
Compiled by Spectator staff

A new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed in Slovakia, bringing the total number of affected sites to six. The latest case involves a farm housing approximately 870 bulls near the village of Jurová, in the Dunajská Streda district of western Slovakia.

This marks the fifth outbreak in the same district, following earlier cases reported on farms in Medveďov, Ňárad, Baka and Lúč. A fifth outbreak had previously been identified in Plavecký Štvrtok, near Bratislava, all at the end of March...