WINDHOEK, Oct. 14 -- Namibia's cattle farmers have lost the status that lets their fresh beef into Europe, and the outbreak that cost them is now in a second region.

Authorities confirmed foot-and-mouth disease on a commercial farm in the Karasburg district of the //Kharas Region on September 23, and the World Organisation for Animal Health suspended Namibia's disease-free status effective September 22, according to a statement from the delegation of the European Union. On October 5 the bloc suspended entry of fresh meat from cattle, sheep, goats and other hoofed animals from Namibia's previously disease-free zone, along with biltong and jerky-type products.

It is not a blanket ban. Processed meat given the most severe risk-mitigating t...