Another foot-and-mouth disease case in Europe; it appears in Hungary after 50 years

Hungarian veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in a dairy cattle farm located in the municipality of Kisbajcs, in the Györ district of northern Hungary, near the Slovakian border.

This notification marks the first case of FMD in the European country in more than 50 years, as the disease had not been detected there since 1973. The farm has 1,418 dairy cattle, which began showing the first clinical signs on March 3. The suspicion was reported to Hungarian veterinary services on March 5, and officials immediately conducted an on-site inspection.

The most recent FMD outbreak in the European Union occurred in Germany in January 2025 at a buffalo farm near Berlin. A 6-km restriction zone around the outbreak remains in place and is expected to be lifted on April 11.