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Thousands of farm animals have been killed in Hungary and Slovakia after a major foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, the first in over 50 years in both countries. The highly contagious virus was first found on a cattle farm in northwestern Hungary in early March. It later spread to several farms in Slovakia. Since then, the virus […]

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