Foot and mouth returns in South America

Farmers resisting the possibility of concessions on beef by the EU Commission in free trade deal talks with South American countries have a new cause for alarm, after the first case of foot and mouth disease in South American cattle since 2013 was found in Colombia.

In Colombia’s first incidence of the disease in eight years, seven cases were found in a herd of 136 female beef cattle in the Arauca region.