Mexico halts cattle exports from Sonora to the U.S. due to foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

Mexico has temporarily suspended the live cattle export from Sonora, Mexico, to the United States through the Agua Prieta to Douglas border crossing. The interruption, announced on October 16 in Mexico City, was triggered by the detection of a possible case of foot-and-mouth disease in a calf.

The suspension impacts cross-border agricultural trade between the two countries at the specified border ports. Authorities are responding to the potential health threat posed by the suspected infection in the livestock.