Recent oral and disease outbreaks in Hungary and Slovakia prompted government officials to join Austria orders closure of 24 small borders Prevent infectious diseases from entering your own country.
According to official reports, two small border crossings in Slovakia were closed on Saturday, April 5, with 22 border crossings being closed on its border with Hungary.
According to the Austrian Foreign Ministry, police will monitor larger border checkpoints, indicating that strict inspections and inspections will be conducted to ensure that the disease is not brought to Austria. Cars and even pedestrians will be asked to cross the popular carpet to prevent the virus from spreading to Austria. The vehicle’s meat products will also be inspected, which are prohibited from being brought into the country in the event of an outbreak.
“In order not to undermine these police checks, we ask you to understand that we cannot provide more details everywhere, especially the time, staffing level, check format, etc.”
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FMD strikes Slovakia, then Hungary in recent days
Slovakia was the first attack on infectious diseases infected with livestock last Tuesday, prompting the country’sAnnounce an emergency“The disease was found to spread between three farms. Hungary also reported an FMD outbreak on Wednesday, the first in 50 years.
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Disease cannot be transmitted to humans
According to Austrian health authorities, it can only be transmitted through cattle, pig, sheep and goats. Signs of an outbreak will show fever and oral blisters in the livestock, which may eventually lead to the removal of infected animals.
Over 3,000 cattle were eliminated in Hungary last week Thousands of livestock were infected after an outbreak in Levire. The horrible situation prompted Hungarian officials to order the bodies to be buried near the Austrian border last week. Concerns have been raised after Austrian residents and officials fear that large-scale cemeteries slaughtered cattle would contaminate groundwater, thereby infecting other livestock in the area.
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Carefully monitor the risk of FMD outbreak boundaries
Austrian health officials have been working to monitor vehicles, even transport trucks and heavy machinery, for transporting and burying late livestock into burial sites to ensure they go through extreme disinfection processes before they can cross the infected country and Austria itself.
The last known The country’s FMD outbreak was in 1981Austrian officials have difficulty ensuring that the disease does not break into Austria after nearly 44 years of illness.
But residents feared that the “open” trucks of transport would be eliminated and infected livestock to nearby border towns
Spread quickly.
“Livestock farmers are encouraged to slaughter their livestock in their own backyard, they can do this by notifying the authorities in advance, a blood sample will be taken from the animals, if this confirms the absence of the virus, the presence of the virus is excluded, then the meat of the animals can be used and consumed,” the chief veterinarian officer of Hungary, Szabolcs Pásztor, told Euronews.
The edge will remain highly alert until Austrian authorities believe the emergency and contain the disease. For travelers, travel to Austria through any larger border crossing point, prepare for prolonged delays when inspecting and disinfecting to prevent cross-contamination.