Ten Years On and There's Another Threat of Fmd

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As the 10th anniversary of the 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic gets ever nearer, so, I regret to say, does the disease itself.

The outbreak in Turkey has spread over the borders of the EU and into Bulgaria. A wild boar shot on December 30 was found to be infected - although no one knew about it until January 5 - and on January 9, surveillance tests revealed disease in 26 goats, 20 sheep, one cow and - most worrying of all, because of the amount of virus they produce - eight pigs.

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Ten Years On and There's Another Threat of Fmd

Both the Bulgarian government and the EU veterinary authorities have imposed controls. All of the susceptible livestock have been slaughtered, shooting has been banned and m...

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