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No cases of foot-and-mouth disease recorded in Serbia

Belgrade, 4 April 2025

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management announced that, based on current data collected from the infectious animal disease monitoring system (ADIS/EU and WAHIS/WOAH), no suspected or confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been recorded in Serbia.

In order to increase the level of preparedness of the veterinary service and coordinate the implementation of activities to prevent the occurrence of infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Serbia, the National Crisis Centre (NCC) within the Veterinary Administration has instructed the Regional Crisis Centres (RCCs) for rapid response to urgently make available to the NCC/Veterinary Administration all available resources, equipment and personnel with mobile teams.

Given the unpredictable epizootiological situation regarding the foot-and-mouth disease virus and the high risk of introducing this disease into Serbia from Hungary and Slovakia, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management has taken enhanced biosecurity measures and yesterday, 3 April, installed and put into operation disinfection barriers for freight and passenger vehicles at the Horgoš border crossing.

All vehicles entering Serbia from Hungary are being redirected to the disinfection barriers in order to implement the necessary disinfection measures, and special checkpoints have been prepared where vehicles are sprayed manually or mechanically using hand or motor pumps, which allows for thorough disinfection of the entire means of transport.