``Hotel bookings are down 20 percent nationally, but some guest houses are reporting 100 percent cancellations,'' Ken Kelling, spokesman for the English Tourism Council, which caters for domestic tourists, told Reuters Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world...archpv=reuters

AND: Although the disease poses no threat to food safety, its appearance a few years after the discovery of mad cow disease here has frightened some Britons off beef.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/worl...rchpv=aponline

AND:
Cattle traders have blocked access to an airport in Clermont-Ferrand in a protest at the cost of foot-and-mouth disease.

Their protests mirror earlier blockades in Lyon on Monday and Toulouse on Tuesday over tough restrictions on the movement of animals.
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/eur...oot/index.html

AND:
USDA will increase staffing at
international airports in an attempt to keep foot-and-mouth disease out of the
country. Officials said that because loopholes may exist at some airports, more
staff would be placed to interview passengers and inspect baggage for flights
returning from any country where the disease of cloven-hoofed animals has been
found. This and other issues were discussed this morning on what has become a
weekly teleconference with members of the press.
http://www.hpj.com/wsdocs/bridge/story251.htm

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