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...paranoid frenzy. Border inspectors examined everything from car tires to ham sandwiches for traces of foot-and-mouth. Tourists from the U.K. were ordered to disinfect their feet upon arrival in Portugal. Possible symptoms of the disease were reported in Belgium. Although initial tests for the virus on a pig farm near the town of Diksmuide were negative, all 323 pigs-75 of them British imports-were destroyed and transportation of live farm animals was banned. Germany ordered the slaughter of all sheep, goats and deer imported from the U.K. since Feb. 1. France decreed that 50,000 sheep...
...Europe get into this fix? British veterinary investigators last week zeroed in on Burnside farm, a pig-fattening facility in Northumberland, in the north of England. Vets believe pigs at the unit may have been fed leftovers from local school lunches that possibly contained bits of contaminated meat. The current virus, experts say, is the pan-Asian variant of the "O" type of foot-and-mouth, a highly infectious strain, which could have entered Britain through illegally imported meat. Once the virus got into the pig swill at Burnside, it was too late. A group of pigs from the farm...
...What caused this particular outbreak? No one knows for sure, but the infection is thought to have come from abroad, perhaps Asia, since the U.K. has been disease-free for years. The most likely source is contaminated meat or bones in pig swill at a Northumberland pig-fattening unit...
...Bush's tax cut comes with a congressional diet. So would Tom Daschle's, albeit a higher-calorie one. A trigger, meanwhile, would be little more than a license to pig...
...seriously. This was a very special "Survivor," in which fire, that totem of all castaway shows, reared up and took a casualty, and reality came to Reality TV with a hot kiss of vengeance. Mike, fisherman, pig-killer and all-around tough guy, earned his second straight Parental Guidance Warning by taking a faceful of smoke, passing out and landing hands-first in civilization's oldest friend...