OUTBREAK: HUNGARY APRIL 2025
OUTBREAK: HUNGARY APRIL 2025 O N After 52 years of being free of this disease, Hungary is facing an outbreak of sticky foot and mouth disease (an extremely contagious illness affecting livestock) in the northwestern corner of the country, right next to the Slovakia-Austria-Hungary border triangle point. This area, BTW, happens to be that part of the country from where largest numbers of citizens of Hungary commute daily to Austria . ( The video in the link is in Magyar but you can turn on the subtitles in dozens of languages, including English). Add to that the thousands of citizens of Slovakia who reside on the Hungarian side of the border and commute to Bratislava for work. (Remember: all three countries are part of the Schengen system, so, under normal circumstances, there is no border procedure, you just roll or walk through.) Most train and automobile traffic between Vienna (plus western Europe) and the rest of Hungary cross this area. So, it is reasonable to expect wide rangi...
