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Category: foot and mouth di

  • Round Two

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=FBC46DE0-CE0B-FDF8-DA0FC21D2AC4EB1E">New FMD case confirmed in England</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>he British government has confirmed another case of foot and mouth disease in Surrey County. The new site is about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the farms that were infected in July and August. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has established a 10…

  • Need for vigilance although foot and mouth disease outbreak waning

    <br /><a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=60BA9C4C-C56D-06B3-3E5683074AD583F0">Brownfield Network: Need for vigilance although foot and mouth disease outbreak waning</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A leading microbiologist in Britain says the Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak might be under control by the end of this week if there are no more cases confirmed, according to Dow Jones. Professor Hugh Pennington tells British newspapers that…

  • Wrong

    I've been following the foot and mouth disease outbreak in Britain with interest, does this surprise you, but something is a little wrong <a href="http://www.afrol.com/articles/26353">here</a> and <a href="http://english.sabah.com.tr/4AAD700B478D4C33B10AAFEEE0DF7D7F.html">here</a> with the reporting on this issue. Both of these stories are saying that it is <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> affecting the British herds, not foot and mouth…

  • More Information

    More information on Britain's foot and mouth disease problem. The outbreak was likely from a <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">government sponsored lab</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Hopes rose Sunday that a potentially disastrous foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain could be contained, as scientists grew increasingly suspicious that the disease came from a high-security laboratory near the infected farm.<br />n<br />nThe agriculture department…