Foot-and-mouth disease has turned up in a huge national park in southwest England, agriculture officials said Sunday, raising fears it will be spread by wildlife to livestock that graze there.

Nearly 60 separate outbreaks of the highly contagious livestock disease have been reported in Britain and Northern Ireland, and about 45,000 animals- sheep, cows and pigs -- have been destroyed in an effort to stop the spread of the ailment.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/worl...and-Mouth.html

AND: Britain's virulent foot-and-mouth outbreak spread Sunday but the government insisted there were no plans to put off looming elections.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world...l-food-di.html

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