Poland has ramped up controls of livestock imports amid the spread of a highly contagious animal foot-and-mouth disease in neighbouring Germany, Warsaw said late on Tuesday.
The UK has become the latest country to ban the import of live animals and meat from Germany in an effort to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease after the virus was detected in a herd of water ...
The United Kingdom's agriculture industry was devastated by an outbreak of the disease in 2001, with over 2,000 farms affected and more than 6 million animals slaughtered.