WARNING NEWS… Having detected the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease in some of the 1600 animals in Kosti village of southeastern Bulgaria, government health and agriculture officials put approximately 500 to death in an attempt to contain its spread in livestock.

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-232327-bulgaria-livestock-slaughtered-over-health-scare.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-12/bulgaria-livestock-slaughtered-over-health-scare.html
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/01/south-korea-bulgaria-battle-foot-and-mouth-disease/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosti