A foot-and-mouth outbreak in Hungary that has caused border restrictions and the culling of thousands of animals could have come from an artificially engineered virus, the prime minister's office has suggested https://t.co/Sl4mJxy5pE pic.twitter.com/ECPUdRY6ow
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Terrifying virus shuts European borders as PM says it may be ‘biological attack’
Foot and mouth disease – which hasn’t been detected in Hungary for over half a century – has broken out in the country, forcing neighbouring Austria and Slovakia to shut their borders
A virus is sweeping through Europe forcing the closure of borders, with fears it could have been launched in a “biological attack”. Livestock are being slaughtered by the thousands after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Hungary – the first in more than 50 years.
In response, neighbouring Austria and Slovakia have closed dozens of their border crossings to the landlocked country, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health. A Hungarian spokesperson said the disease, which was first detected on a cattle farm near the northwest border, may have been “artificially engineered”.
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