Foot and mouth disease: government media suggests Partizán may be responsible for the spread, Rábapordány site denies

After the virus appeared in Rábapordány, government media began to suggest that the Partizán reporting crew may have brought the virus to the site. According to the site owner, they had not even been there.

Cases of highly contagious disease were detected on the border with Austria. Travellers – also from the Düren district – should therefore be particularly careful.

Sticky foot and mouth disease also appeared in the settlement of Szabolcs Bóna, but as he writes, no press workers visited the animals.

An epidemiological investigation is underway to find out how the virus could have "jumped 60 kilometers" compared to previously infected colonies.

Slovakia is active in foreign trade with sheep especially in the period just before Easter (lambs). During this period, approximately half of Slovakia's annual exports of sheep and sheep meat are realized. In 2024, up to 57 percent of full-year exports fell to the months of March and April, an average of half over the past ten years. This was stated in the analysis by Ľubomír Koršňák, analyst at UniCredit Bank. “In contrast to the EU, on average…