Germany’s farming and food industry is likely to have lost about 1 billion euros ($1 billion) of business following an outbreak of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease, the head of the farming cooperatives association told German media on Thursday.

Berlin said Wednesday it was working "day and night" to find the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has led several countries to stop German meat imports.

Germany on Friday registered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo on a farm near Berlin, the country's first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988.

Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have restricted animal imports from an area of Germany following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. A government ban on pig, sheep and cattle imports from Germany announced on Tuesday did not apply to Northern Ireland.

For the first time in nearly 40 years, an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been confirmed on the outskirts of Berlin.

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease (HMD) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that primarily affects even-toed

Germany has no new cases of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease with a suspect case on Thursday not confirmed, German agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on German radio on Friday. Germany has only one case of the disease,

Germany on Friday registered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo on a farm near Berlin, the country's first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988. Foot-and-mouth ...

The UK Government has issued a warning over Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) after a case was confirmed in Germany. Imports of certain animals from Germany will be banned after the case was identified.

None of the 888 cattle recently imported from Brandenburg, Germany, to the Netherlands have tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Minister of Agriculture Femke Wiersma informed the Tweede Kamer in a letter.

Germany’s foot-and-mouth outbreak highlights the risk of illegal meat imports. Is the UK prepared to protect its farmers from disaster?