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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (135)	6/29/2002 12:29:20 AM
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AP News -- Possible Pig Disease Hits Britain. June 28, 2002 Possible Pig Disease Hits Britain By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:25 p.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- Veterinarians are investigating several rural areas in England after six pigs tested positive for Aujeszky disease, a livestock ailment, the government said Friday. The discovery was made at the same slaughterhouse where the first case of foot-and-mouth was detected in last year's epidemic. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was likely a coincidence that the two diseases were discovered at Cheale Meats, in Brentwood, Essex, southern England. The ailment, which mainly strikes pigs, is not as contagious as foot-and-mouth and is generally spread slowly from pig to pig, the department said Friday. The foot-and-mouth epidemic led to the culling of more than 4 million animals and shut British meat and livestock out of export markets. Aujeszky's disease, first discovered in cattle in the United States in 1813, turned up in Britain in 1979 and the last outbreak was in 1989. Two years later, Britain was declared officially free of it. The disease also has been found in continental Europe. On Friday, a pig farmer was given a 15-year ban on keeping farm animals after he was convicted of failing to tell officials his herd had foot-and-mouth disease at the start of the British epidemic. Robert Waugh, 56, also was ordered to pay $15,000 in court costs. The farmer, who fattened pigs for slaughter, was a supplier to Cheale Meats where the highly contagious disease was first found Feb. 19, 2001. The virus was discovered at his farm in Heddon-on-the-Wall, northern England, three days later. Waugh was not accused of starting the epidemic. ``You are before the court specifically for the things you did or did not do,'' Judge David Prowse said. ``You are not to be a scapegoat for what happened after.'' Copyright 2002 The Associated Press