BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish the source of the country’s first outbreak of the disease in decades.
“The most important task now … is to ensure that we get this disease under control,” Oezdemir told reporters in Berlin.
The government is also working to keep export markets open for German meat and dairy produce, especially in the European Union.
Germany announced the country’s first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years on Jan. 10 in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of Berlin in the Brandenburg region.
(Reporting by Rachel More, Editing by Miranda Murray)
