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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brits Rush to Contain Foot-and-Mouth | 8/6/2007 | See Source »

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