'Pirbright link' to farm outbreak
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Initial tests suggest the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey is the same strain found in the area last month.
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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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New threat for Britain's farmers as bluetongue disease joins foot and mouth as menace to livestock.
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Hundreds of catering firms in the region are being contacted as part of the alert. It follows four outbreaks of salmonella in Greater Manchester and Cheshire this year been linked to contaminated Spanish eggs.
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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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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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"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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Cow to be culled after testing positive for  bluetongue virus on farm near Middlesbrough, Defra says
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Cattle culled from a second farm in Egham, Surrey, tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, it is confirmed.
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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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A suspected new case of foot-and-mouth is investigated in Hampshire.
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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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Farmers' leaders are optimistic the UK's first case of bluetongue disease may be an isolated incident.
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Cattle culled from a second farm in Egham, Surrey, tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, it is confirmed
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A new case of foot and mouth disease has been officially confirmed close to the site of last month&#39;s outbreak, Britain&#39;s chief veterinary officer Debby Reynolds said Wednesday.
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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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The European Commission on Saturday confirmed that an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in eastern England was the H5N1 strain.