UPDATE: 12:10AM EST - May 4The death toll has now been raised to 24."China on Sunday raised the death toll to 24 following the outbreak of a virus in another province a day after the Health Ministry ordered...
highlighted by amyjudd | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago 208 views | 1 comment
An independent review of the laboratory at the source of last year's foot and mouth outbreak in the UK has concluded that the lab was 'shabby and dilapidated'. Also blamed for the outbreak of the disease is...
highlighted by amyjudd | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 299 views | 2 comments
"IT WAS a day like any other for Kelvin Pate, tending to cattle and sheep on his 350-acre farm in Scotland yesterday. But his future, and the survival of thousands of other farmers, depends upon the outcome of a crisis that has been ignored or forgotten by much of the...
UPDATE 13 September 2007; Initial tests suggest the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey is the same strain found in the area last month which originated from the Pitbright laboratory..
"A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease has been discovered in the same county as...