Foot and Mouth Biosecurity Alert
UK - Biosecurity Experts Offer Advice on Abattoir and Vehicle Disinfection Procedures to Farmers and Abattoirs

Talks Over Animal Movement Worry
UK - Farming leaders who hope animal movement restrictions can be further eased are to meet Wales' Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones later.

Temporary Control Zone Lifted
UK - The temporary control zone around a farm in Surrey has been lifted after foot-and-mouth test results proved negative over the weekend.

Have Lessons Been Learned?
UK - The latest foot-and-mouth (FMD) crisis has been handled well so far, says Sean Rickard in the FT.

No all-clear on foot and mouth till end of week
UK - Farmers were warned yesterday they will have to wait until the end of the week before the all clear can be sounded on the foot and mouth outbreak.

Cost of foot and mouth tops £2.7bn
UK - The foot and mouth epidemic has so far cost £2.7 billion, the Chancellor said yesterday.

Stream may have spread foot and mouth
UK - The investigation into the foot and mouth outbreak is now focusing on a stream running through the two infected farms.

Lab bosses 'in denial' over role in foot and mouth scare
UK - Bosses of a laboratory at the centre of Britain's latest foot and mouth outbreak are in "a state of denial" over their involvement in the scare, furious government officials claimed last night.

Foot and mouth tests negative on fourth farm
LONDON (Reuters) - Foot and mouth tests on livestock on a fourth farm in southern England outside an initial containment zone have proved negative, the government said on Saturday, easing fears the disease had spread.

Brown says farm virus is contained
UK - The threat of foot-and-mouth disease appeared to recede on Friday as the prime minister and chief veterinary officer moved to calm fears that the outbreak had spread beyond its original containment area.

Virus leak could not be an accident
UK - Sabotage is the most likely explanation for the foot and mouth outbreak, one of the scientists at the heart of the crisis claimed yesterday.

Pressure grows to vaccinate cattle in foot and mouth war
UK - Pressure was last night growing on the Government to vaccinate thousands of cattle to halt the spread of foot and mouth disease.

Scottish border curbs eased
SCOTLAND - A further relaxation of restrictions imposed in response to the Surrey foot-and-mouth outbreak has been welcomed by Scottish farmers.

Defra publishes interim epidemiology report and vaccination strategy
UK - Defra have stated that in accordance with contingency planning arrangements vaccination is at the forefront of disease control policy in Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks.

Foot-And-Mouth 'May Be Contained'
UK - The foot-and mouth outbreak is unlikely to have spread outside Surrey, the government has announced.

Test results negative for suspect farm
UK - Initial tests results for foot and mouth disease on farm animals at a farm outside the surveillance area showed the farm was free of the disease, the government said on today (Friday).

Farmer: It's not foot and mouth, more likely flu
UK - The farmer at the centre of a new foot and mouth scare has said he is "absolutely sure" the disease is not on his farm in Dorking.

New Case Of Foot And Mouth Investigated In Surrey
UK - Fears of a proliferation in the foot and mouth outbreak were mounting late last night after the government's chief veterinary officer announced the creation of a new control zone outside the original surveillance zone in Surrey.

Temporary control zone established in Surrey
UK - This evening a 3km radius Temporary Control Zone has been put around one premises in Surrey outside of the existing Surveillance Zone.

Legionnaires’ Probe At Pirbright Centre
UK - A reported case of Legionnaires’ disease with alleged links to the Institute of Animal Health at Pirbright was being investigated by officials yesterday.

Sabotage At Pirbright Linked To Religious Extremists
UK - "Sabotage is emerging as the most likely cause of the recent FMD outbreak in England". This is according to former NZ Animal Health Committee observer and London-based independent researcher Don Stewart.

IFA Challanges Minister Over Brazilian Beef Imports
IRELAND - IFA President Padraig Walshe said today IFA and the farming community strongly support the essential biosecurity measures taken by the Minister for Agriculture to guard against the outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in Britain spreading to ...

Ministers Want Private Lab To Be Blamed For Leak
UK - Ministers are frustrated by the failure of the Health and Safety Executive to assert that a private laboratory at Pirbright, Surrey, was to blame for the leak which led to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

Scots Press Brussels For Early End To Export Ban
SCOTLAND - Despite the general winding down of the foot-and-mouth panic, which has revolved around a handful of farms in Surrey, exports of beef and lamb from Scotland are unlikely to resume for several weeks.

Payouts May Be Limited To Infected Stock
UK - Farmers and other businesses which have been financially affected by the foot and mouth outbreaks were yesterday finding out whether they could sue the government or the drugs firm Merial over the millions of pounds a day they claim to have lost...