Germany has no new cases of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease with a suspect case on Thursday not confirmed, German agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Friday. Germany has only one case of the disease,

An outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been detected in a herd of water buffaloes in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, not far from Berlin. The outbreak represents the first known cases of FMD in Germany since 1988,

After being FMD-free for nearly 40 years, Germany detected FMD virus serotype O in a herd of water buffalo in Märkisch-Oderland, Brandenburg. The national reference laboratory at the FLI has detected the FMD virus serotype O in a water buffalo infected with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) from the district of Märkisch-Oderland.

France has reinforced checks for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and issued alerts to veterinarians after an outbreak of the highly contagious virus was detected in cattle in Germany last week, prompting trade bans from several countries.

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Berlin said Wednesday it was working "day and night" to find the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has led several countries to stop German meat imports.

German authorities are to lift an emergency ordinance to stop the spread of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease at the end of the day, the agriculture ministry in the eastern state of Brandenburg said on Friday.

Germany’s agriculture industry faces sales losses of about €1 billion ($1.03 billion) due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has led to export restrictions, farm cooperatives group DRV said.

Germany took further steps Monday to limit the potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease, as an outbreak of the virus threatened to hit the country's agricultural exports.