| ■ Tests Confirm Second Foot and Mouth Outbreak in Britain | 2007.08.11 |
| A second outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been confirmed on a British farm close to the farm where the first outbreak was detected, Britain's Environment Secretary Hilary Benn told BBC television Tuesday. Agence France-Presse reported that the second farm is located within a two-mile protection zone established around the farm south of London where the first outbreak was confirmed Friday. About 120 cattle were slaughtered at the first farm, near the village of Normandy in Surrey, and tests have confirmed foot and mouth disease in three of those animals. Officials have ordered the slaughter of 50 cattle at the second farm, AFP reported. The outbreaks on the two farms have farmers and officials worried about a possible repeat of the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic that devastated Britain's farming industry, AFP reported. |