UK Vets Confirm New Foot-And-Mouth Case

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Plagues, Pestilences and Diseases*

Sep 21, 5:20 PM EDT
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UK Vets Confirm New Foot-And-Mouth Case*

By D'ARCY DORAN
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) -- A new case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in
cattle on a farm in southern England Friday, officials said.

Britain's environment department confirmed the sixth case of
foot-and-mouth in an area close to a medical research laboratory since
Aug. 3.

As a precaution, authorities had already begun slaughtering around 40
cows on the farm, which was inside a two-mile protection zone set up
close to the latest reported cases in Surrey, south of London, the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.

Two new cases were detected in Surrey last week and government vets
confirmed the disease was the same strain found at three other locations
where a foot-and-mouth outbreak began Aug. 3.

That outbreak was centered near the government-funded Institute for
Animal Health, a diagnostic laboratory, and Merial Animal Health, a
British unit of the U.S.-French pharmaceutical firm Merial Ltd.

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On the Net:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/footandmouth