The European Commission announced last week that UK exports of live animal and dairy products will resume, except those within a 10km zone in Surrey, where an outbreak of Food-and-Mouth disease, or FMD, was reported more than a fortnight ago.
“This reduction in the control measures at this stage has been possible because of the favorable evolution in the disease situation and the strict and immediate movement ban implemented in the whole of Great Britain,” according to a press statement from the European Commission. The statement also said investigations are still on going.
FMD is an acute infectious disease, which causes fever and blisters, especially in the mouth and on the feet and is spread through contact with the saliva, milk, dung or blood of infected animals, as well as by the movement of animals, humans and vehicles that have been in contact with the virus. Although rare in humans, FMD causes loss of milk yield, mastitis, sterility and chronic lameness in livestock.
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