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...Europe's foot-and-mouth crisis went global as the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the Middle East and Asia imposed limits on imports of meat and dairy products from the European Union. E.U. health commissioner David Byrne called the moves excessive and threatened to take the case to the World Trade Organization. In Britain, officials planned "preemptive" killing of up to 1 million animals to contain the infection, which grew to more than 260 confirmed cases since the first outbreak in February...
...called 'fièvre aphteuse' in France, 'fiebre aftosa' in Spain, 'Maul-und-Klauenseuche' in Germany and 'mundog klovsyge' in Denmark. It is harmless to humans and does not even kill most infected animals. Yet foot-and-mouth disease was arousing anxiety throughout the world last week, and the virus that causes the ailment in pigs, sheep and cattle was closing borders, destroying livelihoods and bringing to a standstill much of the world's trade in beef, pork and lamb...
...worldwide foot-and-mouth alert is a sobering demonstration of how quickly a single isolated infection can hop from farm to farm and continent to continent. The current crisis began when a bit of infected meat found its way into a school lunch in Britain's Northumberland in mid-February and then, as leftovers, into swill fed to pigs at a local fattening facility. Before the first symptoms appeared to warn of the danger, the virus was spreading to farms all across the country as animals were shipped to slaughterhouses hundreds of miles away. Within a few weeks it turned...
...frozen meat and on most dairy products, not only from Britain - which in any case had banned exports when the outbreak began - but from France as well. At least a half dozen other European countries imposed checks and restrictions on French exports because of confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth in the western region of Mayenne. The bans, said Marc-Henri Cassagne, head of the organization that monitors animal health in France, "are abusive in their application to areas of France that have shown no sign of contagion." But even Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany warned that the slaughter-and-burn...
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