Tests begin after first case of bluetongue is detected in livestock
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Tests are being carried out Sunday to determine the extent of bluetongue infection after the first-ever case was detected in Britain, where farmers are already dealing with foot-and-mouth disease.
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Results of tests to establish whether a farm worker contracted bird flu are due to be revealed.
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An animal suspected of having mad cow disease was given a clean bill of health in a second round of sophisticated testing, the US Agriculture
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European scientists confirm what is thought to be the first known case of "mad cow" disease in a goat.
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Britain&#39;s first case of Bluetongue disease has been found in a cow in the country&#39;s south, health officials said Saturday as they grappled to contain foot-and-mouth outbreaks.
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A fifth animal has been found to have contracted the bluetongue disease in Suffolk, officials say.
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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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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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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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No sign of mad cow disease was found in an animal the Agriculture Department had singled out for further tests, officials said Tuesday.
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Health authorities were investigating Friday a suspected new case of foot-and-mouth disease in a control zone and ordered cattle that showed symptoms of the virus slaughtered.
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Tests have confirmed an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a third farm this month, the environment ministry said Tuesday.
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The Agriculture Department said the brain of a cow tested positive three times for the presence of the proteins that cause the disease.
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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 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's farming industry.
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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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The first case of the West Nile Virus for 2004 was recently confirmed in a horse in the northern part of St. Francois County. The confirmed case makes St.