Foot-and-mouth disease detected in UK
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070804/ap_on_he_me/britain_foot_and_mouth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070804/capt.eeb3e409b00644aeae954c1df4089d59.britain_foot_and_mouth_lst103.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=cksn205lQBJjZ3a0J0KvlA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A padlock and tapes are seal off a closed footpath Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007 near Guildford, England, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of London, which runs near to a cattle farm where an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was diagnosed Friday. The case is the first in Britain since 2001, when an epidemic devastated the farming industry and led to the slaughter of 7 million livestock. Many of the carcasses were burned on huge pyres that dotted the country, and large swaths of countryside were declared off-limits to visitors, damaging tourism. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Scientists worked Saturday to trace the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on an English farm, a development that prompted the European Union to ban livestock imports from Britain, an official said.</p><br clear="all"/>

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