Loading ...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, neighboring Austria and Slovakia have closed dozens of their border crossings to the landlocked country, according to the World Organization 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”.