Farming crisis as new virus strikes
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Chief vet urges vigilance for 'devastating' disease after first case of bluetongue found in the UK.
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Â·  Animals on second Suffolk farm infected Â·  Restrictions on livestock movement eased
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Cambodia says it has found a new outbreak of bird flu in a province near Phnom Penh. Cambodia&#39;s agriculture ministry says all birds at the farm where the outbreak was found will be slaughtered.
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Authorities warn that millions of people could be killed. Humans, rather than animals, would be the carriers of the new flu. The high density of poultry and humans in several Asian countries has been blamed
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Crops damaged by recent wet weather are being left to rot because it is too wet to harvest them, farmers say.
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Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years. Doctors estimate that hundreds of thousands of people may be affected by norovirus in the coming days. Dozens of hospital wards across the country have already been closed to try to stop the virus' spread.
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Poor harvests caused by bad weather could hurt farmers more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak, the government's rural adviser says.
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Poor harvests caused by bad weather could hurt farmers more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak, the government's rural adviser warns.
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A new outbreak of foot and mouth in Britain was caused by the same strain of virus which was declared &quot;eradicated&quot; only last week, initial test results showed Thursday.
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Tests confirmed foot-and-mouth disease on a farm in southern England Friday, the sixth case since August, after cattle had showed symptoms of the virus and were ordered slaughtered, officials said.
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"The utmost priority is to cull the animals to control disease and to put movement control around so that reduces the risk of any further spread"  Authorities confirmed a new foot-and-mouth outbreak on the outskirts of London on Wednesday, just days after the government lifted livestock restrictions following the appearance of the devastating disease last month.The highly contagious disease was found in cattle grazing in Surrey, a county that borders London, and close to a laboratory that was linked to the August outbreak. The discovery created panic in farming communities that lost millions last month.'I'm really worried because I've got loads of pigs, a few cattle and horses, and we were getting the pigs ready for slaughter tomorrow,' said Andrew Parsons, a Surrey farmer. Read more
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Tests confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at a farm in southern England Friday, the sixth case in Britain since August, after cattle showed symptoms of the virus and were ordered slaughtered.
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British government sources have confirmed a suspected case of foot and mouth disease on a farm in southern England, BBC and Sky television reported on Wednesday.
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A sixth suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease is being investigated on a farm in Surrey.
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A federal effort to quickly pinpoint and contain outbreaks of disease among livestock is coming under attack.
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The latest foot-and-mouth outbreak will cost the UK farming industry millions of pounds, the NFU warns.
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The latest variant of the Sober virus was released on Friday and has been spreading over the weekend, but antivirus experts say the situation could have been much worse.