Arya News - Animal transports were banned in a state surrounding Berlin on Saturday and the capital`s two zoos closed as a precaution after foot-and-mouth disease was detected in a buffalo herd just outside the city, Germany`s first outbreak for more than 35 years. Authorities in Brandenburg state, which surrounds Berlin, said on Friday that a farmer found three of a 14-strong herd of water buffalo dead in Hoenow, just outside the capital`s city limits. Germany`s national animal health institute confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease had been detected in samples from one animal, and the rest of the herd was slaughtered.