New bluetongue outbreak concern
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Suspected new cases of the bluetongue virus are investigated in livestock in north-west England.
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British farmers grappling to contain outbreaks of the foot-and-mouth virus faced the threat Sunday of a new disease after a cow was diagnosed with bluetongue, the first case recorded in Britain.
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A series of faults at a government research facility are the likely causes of the recent foot and mouth outbreak, two reports are expected to say.
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Britain&#39;s first case of Bluetongue disease has been found in a cow, health officials said Saturday just as they grappled to contain outbreaks of foot-and-mouth.
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Scientists are investigating the cause of the latest UK foot-and-mouth outbreak at two farms in Surrey.
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A new case of bluetongue has been detected in Britain, for the first time in Scotland, the Scottish government said Saturday.
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Scientists are frantically trying to establish Thursday if a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Britain is the same virus strain as last month&#39;s cases.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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An outbreak of E. coli infections linked to last month&#39;s state fair may be larger than previously thought, with more than 100 additional cases under review, according to health officials.
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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Five new bluetongue cases prompt the extension of control zones in East Sussex and East Anglia.
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Movement restrictions are imposed as a new case of bluetongue is confirmed on a Cambridgeshire farm.
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A herd is culled on another farm as the fourth case of foot-and-mouth in the  latest Surrey outbreak is confirmed.
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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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RALEIGH, NC Nov 4, 2004 - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E. coli bacteria, and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo that was at the State Fair, authorities said.
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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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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.