Farm 'despair' over new outbreak
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There are fears new foot-and-mouth restrictions may affect Wales's sheep sector more than in August.
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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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NI poultry farmers are told to be extra vigilant following a bird flu outbreak in the east of England.
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The government has said that foot and mouth disease has been detected in sheep on another farm and that all animals there had been slaughtered.
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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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Further tests are being carried out at a Suffolk farm hit by the UK's first case of bluetongue disease.
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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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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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An E. coli outbreak that has sickened 59 people in the Northeast is prompting concern among West Coast farmers after officials announced that scallions suspected as carriers of the bacteria came from a Southern California farm.
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The latest foot-and-mouth outbreak will cost the UK farming industry millions of pounds, the NFU warns.
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The first official epidemiology report on the UK bluetongue outbreak is published, as a new case is found in Cambridgeshire.
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A federal effort to quickly pinpoint and contain outbreaks of disease among livestock is coming under attack.
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The last outbreak to affect Midland farmers was foot-and-mouth disease in March 2001.   Nearly 230,000 animals were slaughtered in the region - the second highest number in Britain.
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Suspected new cases of the bluetongue virus are investigated in livestock in north-west England.
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Scientists are investigating the cause of the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak at two farms in Surrey.
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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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British government sources confirmed a suspected outbreak of foot and mouth disease on a cattle farm in southern England on Wednesday, according to reports on BBC and Sky television.