Germany reports foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo

Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious viral infection that is not dangerous to humans but which affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, including sheep and pigs.

The carcass of a water buffalo lies on the ground at a farm in Hoppegarten near Berlin, northeastern Germany, on January 10, 2025, after three cases of foot-and-mouth disease were reported - the country's first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988. (AFP)