Germany exempt from feet and mouth diseases (DME) from 1988, until the virus detected in a water buffalo pack in the state of Brandenburg in early January 2025.
As the fatal virus detected, the local government showed that 3 animals had died and the rest of the flock shot. South Korea has also temporarily prohibited the importation of red meat from Germany.
More than a week later (January 19, 2025), German Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir warned that the epidemic is limited to that of Brandenburg, would not have quickly returned to “normality. “
Aphthous fever is caused through Afthovirus. It is a very contagious viral infection that basically affects the hulls nailed. This includes domestic and wild pigs, cows, sheep, goats, buffalo and my dear. But giraffes, camels, hypopotamia and elephants can also fall with the FMD.
Infected animals expand the blue ones full of fluid in the mouth, the hooves and the bring the. When blisters explode, liquid leaks and virus can and infect other animals.
The virus is also distributed through breathing, manure, milk and spindle. Indirectly, the virus transmitted infected surfaces and other objects, such as cars and animal shipping clothing.
FMD is occasionally with hand and mouth disease (HFMD). HFMD has similar symptoms, but basically affects young children. The Federal Health Organization of Germany, the Robert Koch Institute, warns that the two diseases have nothing to do with the other: HFMD exclusively affects people.
After an incubation effectiveness between two and seven days, milk cattle tends to show the worst symptoms: upper fever, apathy and lack of appetite.
According to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, a federal organization that is for the health of animals, the maximum infections is not fatal. But animals can remain in poor health for a long time and produce much less milk. In young cattle, the virus can damage the central muscle.
Although MPI can be fatal for animals, humans are soft. The symptoms come with soft fever, blisters around the mouth, hands and feet, but the ampoules heal in a few days.
Humans rarely become inflamed only after touch with animals. As such, FMD is not a vintage zoonotic disease, an infection that spreads between animals and humans.
Until now, there is no known case of transmission and human infections to humans.
However, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment of Germany advises prudence with respect to the intake of elevated or non -pasteurized milk, frozen red meat and canned bef, because the virus can remain infectious in those months of products.
Raw milk can transmit a series of infectious diseases, aviar flu.
The FMD is in the world. It is endemic in safe parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The Friedrich Loeffler Institute says that illegally imported foods from these high -level regions are a constant risk for Europe. It is also illegal to feed animals, such as pigs, with remains of human food.
When this prohibition was ignored once in 2001, this led to a giant epidemic of Afitosa fever in the United Kingdom. Six million animals were killed in efforts to prevent the spread of the disease. In the EU, the last known epidemic took position in 2011 in Bulgaria.
There is no remedy for the FMD. Until 1991, it was the right of the EU to vaccinate farm animals opposed to FMD. But since it has been discovered that even vaccinated animals have been able to bring the virus for years, the vaccine has not been systematically administered.
As a result, if an animal is inflamed with a flock or a farm, all animals are sacrificed to avoid the spread of infection. The stables and carriers will have to be deflated intensely because the virus is also incredibly resistant. He can and remain infectious on surfaces, articles and hay for months.
This article was first published in German.