Livestock virus is still active

European Union authorities warn that the foot-and-mouth virus that struck mostly goats and sheep connected the Greek land of Lesvos is still progressive and successful information of spreading further.

As of Tuesday, there person been 79 foot-and-mouth cases connected Lesvos, a fig higher than successful akin outbreaks crossed the EU. The archetypal lawsuit was detected March 16.

Similar cases past year successful Germany, Hungary and Slovakia look to person been detected astatine an earlier stage and bans connected herd movements strictly enforced, hence the much constricted fig of cases.

Hungary and Slovakia went beyond EU protocols, with an immunization program. EU experts person counseled Greece to bash the same.