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To: elmatador who wrote (22783)9/22/2007 7:59:26 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218134
 
These farm animal disease epidemics seem to be getting worse. Maybe we'll all have to become vegetarians...

First case of bluetongue disease found at UK farm
Farmers reel under new blow as Suffolk outbreak follows fresh cases of foot and mouth in Surrey

observer.guardian.co.uk

by Robin McKie and Jo Revill
Sunday September 23, 2007
The Observer

Britain's farmers were facing a new threat last night as it emerged that a disease known as bluetongue had been discovered in cattle, joining foot and mouth as a menace to their livestock.

Bluetongue - never before found in the UK - was identified in a cow near Ipswich, Suffolk, according to a statement released from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The virus is characterised by changes to the mucous linings of the mouth and nose and the coronary band of the foot.