Britain begins slaughter of healthy livestock
In a desperate bid to stop the foot-and-mouth outbreak in its tracks, Britain apparently began culling healthy animals today, while a nervous mainland Europe tightened up its anti-disease
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The effort to contain foot-and-mouth disease has created a nightmarish reality : pyres of farm animals in Britain and France, the abrupt closing of trade borders around the world, a sense of grief
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Battered by a foot-and-mouth epidemic that shows no sign of abating, Britain's livestock farmers braced for a broadened slaughter in which up to 1 million animals could be destroyed. The National
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Britain steps up disease cull
The British government dramatically stepped up its efforts to combat the country's foot-and-mouth disease crisis. Up to 1m animals are set to be slaughtered in a mass cull of apparently healthy
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