Evros authorities on alert over foot-and-mouth disease in Turkey

Greek authorities successful the northeastern Evros borderline portion are connected alert aft Turkish officials reported an outbreak of a highly contagious livestock illness adjacent the frontier, state ERT television reported Friday.

Disinfectant measures are being taken astatine borderline crossings, while customs workers person been instructed to artifact imports of Turkish cheese, peculiarly soft varieties that whitethorn not person undergone pasteurization.

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth illness was reported astir 50 kilometers eastbound of the border. It comes arsenic Greece is suffering an epidemic of sheep and goat pox, which broke retired successful 2024, arsenic well arsenic a caller outbreak of foot-and-mouth – the country’s archetypal successful 25 years – that so acold has been confined to the eastbound land of Lesvos.

Greek livestock breeders successful the borderline portion person been instructed to support their animals distant from the Evros river, which runs on astir of the Greek-Turkish onshore border.

Foot-and-mouth is highly contagious among livestock, but does not impact humans.