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...second outbreak of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease emerged in Britain on Monday night, thwarting early hopes that the highly contagious animal disease could be contained...
...report from Britain's Health and Safety Executive failed to determine how the virus may have escaped from the site. Officials spent the last three days scrutinizing Merial Animal Health, the British arm of U.S.-based Merial Ltd, which recently produced 10,000 litres of foot-and-mouth virus culture during vaccine preparation. There have been media speculation that recent flooding in the U.K. helped spread the virus from the Merial lab, but the report said waterborne release had not been confirmed and that release via contamination of a lab employee or visitor remains a "real possibility" (the foot...
...late autumn, 1967, British government officials huddled in a small map room in London. They put a single colored pin on the town of Nantmawr, in Western England, where a vet had uncovered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in pigs. Then they waited. Within days, the colored pinheads began spreading over the country like an ulcerated rash...
...More than 400 farms were affected in less than a week in the Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak of 1967 - the worst outbreak of the disease in Britain until the infamous 2001 epidemic. The virus that caused the outbreak - later termed 01 BFS67 - was isolated, and a sample sent to a secure research facility in Pirbright, Surrey, for future work on vaccines...
Onlookers might easily mistake it for a murder scene, and the yellow tape now sealing access roads to a farm in Surrey, southwest of London, does indeed signal that a killer may again be on the loose in the U.K. Six years ago, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), an infectious illness that targets animals with cloven hooves - pigs and ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer - devastated the British farming industry and British tourism and battered the reputation of Tony Blair's government. Ministers reacted too slowly when the disease was first detected and compounded that mistake by giving...