Authorities across Central Europe are working to contain a major foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, the first in over 50 years ...

Austria has closed off two dozen border crossings with its neighbours, Hungary and Slovakia, in a bid to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease and prevent it from entering the country.

New cases have since emerged in Hungary and Slovakia, with four epicentres in southern Slovakia near the southern border and two in Hungary. Both countries implemented a series of measures to ...