Foot-and-mouth variant hits Iraq buffaloes, threatening livelihoods

Laboratory tests have identified the SAT2 variant of the viral disease, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. 

Iraqi farmer Saadoun Roumi injects a dose of the foot-and-mouth vaccine to his ailing buffalo at his farm in the village of Badush, northwest of the city of Mosul, on February 7, 2023.