Benn defends foot and mouth response
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Environment secretary rejects criticism, as tests suggest latest case linked to August outbreak.
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Tests for foot and mouth disease on a farm in the southern English county of Hampshire have proved negative, the government said Monday, while reporting another new suspected case.
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Britain's latest foot-and-mouth outbreak is the same strain as last month's, according to initial test results Thursday that gave farmers hope the disease could be contained in a small region.
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Cattled culled on a second farm in  southern England adjacent to the latest outbreak have tested  positive for foot and mouth disease, Britain&#39;s agriculture  ministry said on Friday.
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LONDON - Britain's latest foot-and-mouth outbreak is the same strain as last month's, according to initial test results yesterday that gave farmers hope the disease could be contained in a small region. If the strain turns out to be different, Britain's farmers - whose livestock was hit hard by the earlier outbreak - could lose more of their animals. In ...
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Foot and mouth disease has been confirmed in British cattle close to the site of last month&#39;s outbreak near London, government sources said, according to television stations.
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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.
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The nurse whose impromptu flu shot clinics at Augsburg College have caused a stir is insisting anew that she did nothing wrong. Michelle Torgerson says she did not dilute or otherwise tamper with the flu vaccine
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The UK chief scientist told ministers a badger cull could stop the spread of TB in cattle, the BBC learns.
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FOSTER&#39;S Group chief executive Trevor O&#39;Hoy has defended the handling of last year&#39;s sale of Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality ahead of likely attacks on the Foster&#39;s board at today&#39;s annual meeting in Melbourne.
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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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Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon today defended the clubâs decision to âtarget-testâ Adrian Mutu and then sack him for failing a drugs test.
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The cost of future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth may have to be met by the industry, farmers are being told.
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The British poultry company hit by a bird flu outbreak denied on Friday it had broken rules by importing meat from parts of Hungary that were off limits because of an outbreak there.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)  Thursday cast doubt on Indonesia's claim that a bird flu strain  that had killed millions of chickens in the country could not  be transmitted to humans.
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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 on sheep on a Surrey farm suggest exposure to foot-and-mouth disease, officials say.