France on Tuesday announced its first case of foot-and-mouth disease, confirming suspicions that the highly contagious livestock disease had spread from Britain to continental Europe.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/worl...and-Mouth.html

AND: Devastating foot-and-mouth disease sweeping through Britain's livestock could threaten Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, a spokesman for her creators said Tuesday.

Long-term experiments in cattle breeding also carried out by the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland could fall victim to the animal virus that has forced the destruction of an estimated 160,000 farm animals across Britain.

Scotland now accounts for 26 confirmed outbreaks of the contagious animal disease out of a total of more than 180 that have struck Britain since foot-and-mouth struck three weeks ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/scien...-dolly-dc.html

AND:

The US today banned imports of animals and animal products from the European Union after learning that foot-and-mouth disease had spread to France from Britain.

The Agriculture Department said it was taking the precaution to protect the domestic industry from a possible outbreak of the virus, which could cost the American industry billions of dollars in just one year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/14/world/14BAN.html

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