The outbreak of food-and-mouth disease in Germany could have wide-ranging implications. Here's what will happen step-by-step.

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 Friday. Germany has only one case of the disease,

After being FMD-free for nearly 40 years, Germany detected FMD virus serotype O in a herd of water buffalo in Märkisch-Oderland, Brandenburg. The national reference laboratory at the FLI has detected the FMD virus serotype O in a water buffalo infected with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) from the district of Märkisch-Oderland.

Germany took further steps Monday to limit the potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease, as an outbreak of the virus threatened to hit the country's agricultural exports.

Germany’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday it expects meat and dairy product exports to the European Union to continue despite a case of the foot-and-mouth disease affecting livestock being confirmed last week.

BERLIN — German authorities recently confirmed no more cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) inside the country. On Jan. 10, the country reported its first outbreak of FMD since 1988 in a herd of water buffalo in the Brandenburg region near Berlin.

Germany’s agriculture industry faces sales losses of about €1 billion ($1.03 billion) due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has led to export restrictions, farm cooperatives group DRV said.

German authorities are to lift an emergency ordinance to stop the spread of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease at the end of the day, the agriculture ministry in the eastern state of Brandenburg said on Friday.