UK finds first Bluetongue disease case in cow
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A laboratory has found the Bluetongue  virus in a cow in eastern England, the agriculture ministry  said on Saturday, the first case in Britain and a fresh setback  for the country&#39;s farming industry.
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The government confirmed Friday that cattle slaughtered on a farm in southern England tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease.The disease was detected Wednesday in cattle grazing in Surrey county, 10 miles from laboratories linked to an outbreak last month, said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.Some 40 cattle and 800 pigs on the farm were slaughtered Thursday, according to Steven Ward, the owner's son.Scientists were trying to determine whether the disease could have spread outside a six-mile containment zone set up around the farm, which includes Heathrow Airport and Queen Elizabeth II's Windsor Castle. Read more
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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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A new outbreak of foot and mouth disease was confirmed in Britain on Wednesday and the European Union reimposed a ban on British meat exports.
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A possible new case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States, the Agriculture Department said yesterday. Oklahoma agriculture officials are not revealing whether an inconclusive test for mad cow disease came from an Oklahoma bovine.
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Science & environment: A rare but highly infectious outbreak of Q fever being investigated after 28 people in Gloucestershire contract bug spread by livestock.
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DUBLIN - A patient at a hospital in Dublin is suffering from what is believed to be Ireland&#39;s first locally contracted case of the human form of mad cow disease.
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BASEL, Switzerland (SwissInfo) - Swiss veterinary authorities have registered the first case of bovine blue tongue disease in the country, after cows were infected near Basel. The illness, which is not considered dangerous for humans but can devastate animal herds, has spread from Germany and France and is affecting much of northwestern Europe.
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The agriculture minister confirms bluetongue disease has been detected in Northern Ireland for the first time.
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British authorities confirmed the discovery of foot-and-mouth disease Wednesday at a farm on the outskirts of London
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The first case to originate in the Irish Republic of the human form of mad cow disease is confirmed.
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Ban on farm-to-farm movements in Norfolk and Suffolk after new case of bluetongue disease is found.
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Farmers' leaders are optimistic the UK's first case of bluetongue disease may be an isolated incident.
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A Holstein in western Japan tested positive for mad cow disease in a preliminary test conducted Saturday, an official said.
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Further tests are carried out as it is confirmed a cow on a North East farm has the bluetongue virus.
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Britain said Tuesday a goat diagnosed as having the brain-wasting disease scrapie in 1990 may have had mad cow disease, but it would take up to two years of further tests to confirm this.
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Cattle culled from a second farm in Egham, Surrey, tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, it is confirmed