Report compares costs of animal disease outbreak
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080621/ap_on_he_me/animal_disease"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080620/capt.445a64ae14774c3cb452c8785ee82d72.animal_disease_wx111.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=eaOft7mcKIdnfoPTDX70mQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="In this Aug. 7, 2007, file photo a worker in protective clothing directs the loading of a dead cow into a truck at a farm outside Normandy, south England, where tests confirmed a second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. According to a report released Friday, June 20, 2008, by the Department of Homeland Security the economic risk of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease could surpass $4 billion if the current U.S. research lab of such dangerous pathogens on Plum Island, N.Y., was moved to the U.S. mainland, near livestock herds in Kansas or Texas, two options the Bush administration is considering. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The government acknowledged that an outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations being considered for a new high-security laboratory ? an event it considered highly unlikely ? would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than an outbreak from the isolated island lab where such research is now conducted.</p><br clear="all"/>

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