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• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 20, 18 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Uruguay, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 20, 18 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Mongolia, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 20, 18 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In France, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 20, 18 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 19, 11 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Brazil, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 19, 11 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Uruguay, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 19, 11 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom / Great Britain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 19, 11 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Kuwait, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 19, 11 May 2001
• Was Soviet Weapons Research Behind Foot-And-Mouth Epidemic?, RFE/RL Security Watch, Vol. 2, No. 18, 9 May 2001 -- NTV reported on 5 May that workers at a scientific research center in Kazakhstan say that biological weapons research conducted there in Soviet times created a bacteriological strain that could cause foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 18, 04 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Uruguay, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 18, 04 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In France, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 18, 04 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United KINGDOM / NORTHERN IRELAND, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 18, 04 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The Netherlands, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 18, 04 May 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Qatar, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 18, 04 May 2001

  April

• Foot And Mouth Disease In Eritrea, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Mali, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Uruguay, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Kyrgyzstan, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom / Great Britain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The Netherlands, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Kuwait, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 17, 27 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Namibia, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 16, 20 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 16, 20 April 2001
• FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM / NORTHERN IRELAND, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 16, 20 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The Netherlands, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 16, 20 April 2001
• Britain/Hoof and Mouth/Tourism, Voice of America, 14 April 2001 -- Britain is in the midst of a four-day Easter holiday which usually marks the beginning of the country's spring travel season.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 15, 13 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In France, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 15, 13 April 2001
• Britain / Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 13 April 2001 -- Health teams in Britain are still trying to contain the hoof and mouth disease that has ravaged the countryside.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The Netherlands, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 15, 13 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Saudi Arabia, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 15, 13 April 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom / Great Britain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 15, 13 April 2001
• Britain / Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 12 April 2001 -- Britain's chief scientific advisor believes that the crisis over hoof-and-mouth disease may be past its peak.
• Foot and mouth disease in Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 14, 06 April 2001
• Foot and mouth disease in France, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 14, 06 April 2001
• Foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom / Great Britain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 14, 06 April 2001
• Hoof and Mouth / Tourism, Voice of America, 06 April 2001 -- The fight to regain Britain's lost tourist trade has begun with Prime Minister Tony Blair leading the call that Britain - and specifically the countryside - is "open for business."
• Foot and mouth disease in Ireland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 14, 06 April 2001
• Foot and mouth disease in the Netherlands, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 14, 06 April 2001
• US Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 04 April 2001 -- The United States is taking precautions to keep hoof-and-mouth disease from coming to its shores.
• Illinois Senator Convenes Hearing on Mad Cow Disease, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 04 April 2001 -- Statement of Chairman Peter G. Fitzgerald Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation
• Britain Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 03 April 2001 -- The number of British farms with confirmed cases of hoof-and-mouth disease is approaching one-thousand and a political storm is brewing over the best use of the army in combating the outbreak.
• Vaccines, Voice of America, 02 April 2001 -- American scientists are developing new vaccine medicines against Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

  March

• CENTRAL ASIA: IRIN Focus on spread of animal epidemics, Integrated Regional Information Network, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 30 March 2001 -- The movement of highly contagious animal diseases, including foot-and-mouth, across swathes of Central Asia poses a serious threat to the region, and ultimately to Europe and China.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina - Follow-up report No. 2, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 13, 30 March 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In France - Follow-up report No. 2, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 13, 30 March 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom / Great Britain - Follow-up report No. 4, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 13, 30 March 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The Netherlands - Follow-up report No. 1, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 13, 30 March 2001
• White House Press Briefing - Hoof and Mouth Disease, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 30 March 2001 -- Q: The Agriculture Department announced this afternoon that a test on a hog for foot and mouth disease was negative. Can you tell us what the President has instructed the Agriculture Department to do specifically to monitor livestock in this country, and if there is a heightened level of concern about the possible infection of any U.S. livestock with foot and mouth?
• Britain / hoof-and-mouth, Voice of America, 26 March 2001 -- British soldiers are digging pits to prepare for the mass burial of hundreds of thousands of animals slaughtered in the fight against hoof-and-mouth disease.
• Britain / Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 23 March 2001 -- A new British government report warns that the country is heading toward a "very large epidemic" of hoof and mouth disease.
• FAO Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 20 March 2001 -- The U-N Food and Agriculture Organization says no country is immune from hoof-and-mouth disease.
• Britain / Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 20 March 2001 -- A month into Britain's hoof-and-mouth crisis, Prime Minister Tony Blair has called in the army to help.
• Britain / Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 19 March 2001 -- Britain's top veterinary official says slaughtering all sheep and pigs that are near farms infected with hoof and mouth disease is the best way to curb its spread.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 11, 16 March 2001 -- The origin of the infection is under investigation.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Mongolia, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 11, 16 March 2001 -- Vaccination has started in five counties of Khentii province.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In France, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 11, 16 March 2001 -- Following the discovery of six cattle presenting a clinical picture suggestive of foot and mouth disease (FMD), samples were taken and the six cattle were immediately slaughtered.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom/Great Britain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 11, 16 March 2001 -- The total number of confirmed outbreaks of FMD in Great Britain currently stands at one hundred and fifteen (115). In addition, a single outbreak of FMD was also confirmed in Northern Ireland on 1 March linked with the movement of infected sheep from Great Britain.
• Britain Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 15 March 2001 -- Britain is planning to slaughter more than 200-thousand healthy sheep that may have been in contact with animals infected with hoof-and-mouth disease, which continues to spread.
• New Foot and Mouth Vaccines, Voice of America, 14 March 2001 -- Scientists at a U-S government laboratory are working on new vaccines against Foot and Mouth Disease that might someday prevent epidemics like the one now decimating Britain's livestock industry.
• U-S / Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 14 March 2001 -- As new cases of hoof and mouth disease break out in Europe and South America, U-S border officials are stepping up efforts to make sure the United States remains disease-free.
• Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease require urgent action, UN food agency warns, UN News, 14 March 2001 -- Recommending increased measures to control foot-and-mouth disease in high-risk areas, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned that the rapid spread of the virus clearly demonstrated its ability to infiltrate a wide geographic area and to cause epidemics in countries which have been free from the disease for many years.
• U-S Livestock Ban, Voice of America, 13 March 2001 -- The United States has banned imports of all animals and animal products from the European Union in response to an epidemic of hoof and mouth disease.
• USDA Announces Additional Measures To Guard Against Foot-And-Mouth Disease, USDA Press Release, 13 March 2001 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced it is temporarily prohibiting the importation of swine and ruminant, and any fresh swine or ruminant meat (chilled or frozen) and other products of swine and ruminants from the European Union. This does not include cooked pork products.
• Hoof and Mouth / EU, Voice of America, 13 March 2001 -- European Union (EU) veterinary experts have agreed to a two-week ban on livestock exports from France after the discovery there Tuesday of continental Europe's first case of hoof and mouth disease.
• Foot-And-Mouth Outbreak In Shahrud, RFE/RL Iran Report, Vol. 4, No. 10, 12 March 2001 -- Shahrud Veterinary Center chief Ali Rezvani says three outbreaks of foot-and- mouth disease affecting 300 animals have been found in northeastern Iran
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Swaziland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 10, 09 March 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In South Africa, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 10, 09 March 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Mongolia, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 10, 09 March 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Taipei CHINA, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 10, 09 March 2001
• Britain / Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 09 March 2001 -- Britain's outbreak of hoof and mouth disease is still not contained - two weeks after the first case was detected at a farm in northern England.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom / Northern Ireland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 10, 09 March 2001
• Britain / hoof and mouth, Voice of America, 05 March 2001 -- Officials in Britain say they have recorded more than 70 cases of hoof-and-mouth disease in the past two weeks, and some are calling the outbreak an epidemic.
• Hoof and Mouth Q&A, Voice of America, 03 March 2001 -- The outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in Britain may have spread beyond its borders.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom / Great Britain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 9, 02 March 2001 -- Diagnosis: outbreak No. 2001/04: laboratory diagnosis; outbreaks Nos. 2001/05 and 2001/06: clinical diagnosis.
• Britain Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 01 March 2001 -- The worst fears of British officials have been realized after cases of the highly contagious hoof and mouth disease were detected in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

  February

• Germany / hoof and mouth, Voice of America, 28 February 2001 -- Germany has discovered three sheep imported from England that show signs of the hoof-and-mouth virus that has paralyzed farms and country life in Britain.
• Britain Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 26 February 2001 -- Britain's livestock crisis has deepened with two more cases of hoof-and-mouth disease reported around the country - bringing the number of farms affected to nine.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Swaziland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 8, 23 February 2001 -- Extract from a fax received on 20 February 2001 from Dr Robert S. Thwala, Director, Department of Veterinary and Livestock Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Mbabane
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Argentina - Creation of an "FMD free zone where vaccination is practised", Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 8, 23 February 2001 -- Since August 2000, the epidemiological situation in the sub-region points to the need to consider a new approach to foot and mouth disease (FMD) control, involving a more integrated approach among the countries of the region, and to adopt measures that are more appropriate for its geographic and production conditions.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Mongolia, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 8, 23 February 2001 -- Text of a fax received on 19 February 2001 from Dr Ravdan Sanjaatogtokh, Director, State Veterinary Services, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ulaanbaatar
• Foot And Mouth Disease In The United Kingdom / Great Britain, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 8, 23 February 2001 -- Diagnosis: suspicion of disease was first reported in pigs in the abattoir (outbreak 2001/01) on 19 February 2001 and tissue samples from affected animals were submitted to laboratory the same day.
• Britain - Hoof and Mouth, Voice of America, 22 February 2001 -- British farmers are wondering when their worries will end as they rush to contain an outbreak of highly infectious hoof and mouth disease in a pig herd.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Greece, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 5, 02 February 2001 -- Restoration of free status without vaccination

  January

• Foot And Mouth Disease In Swaziland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 4, 26 January 2001 -- In the traditional buffer zone (Follow-up report No. 4)
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Uruguay, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 4, 26 January 2001 -- Restoration of free status without vaccination
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Israel, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 4, 26 January 2001
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Swaziland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 3, 19 January 2001 -- To date, a total of 419 cattle (comprising 349 from Macakula dip tank and 70 from Nhlofu), 94 pigs and 1 goat have been destroyed.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Brazil, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 3, 19 January 2001 -- Disinfecting was carried out and the necessary waiting period before restocking was completed; in certain cases this took over 60 days because heavy rainfall in the area made it necessary to repeat the disinfection procedure.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Swaziland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 2, 12 January 2001 -- Text of a fax received on 11 January 2001 from Dr Robert S. Thwala, Director of Veterinary and Livestock Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Mbabane
• Foot And Mouth Disease In South Africa, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 2, 12 January 2001 -- To date, the only infected farm outside the foot and mouth disease (FMD) controlled area of Mpumalanga Province remains the cattle feedlot in the Middelburg district. There have been no new clinical cases in the feedlot since 14 December 2000.
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Vets plan to meet to assess foot-and-mouth, Integrated Regional Information Network, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 11 January 2001 -- Veterinary chiefs from Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland plan to meet on Friday in the eastern South African town of Nelspruit to study the current state of foot-and-mouth disease in the region
• SWAZILAND: Aid for foot-and-mouth, Integrated Regional Information Network, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 04 January 2001 -- Swazi Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini has promised to financially compensate cattle owners whose foot-and-mouth infected animals are destroyed
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Swaziland, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 1, 05 January 2001 -- All controls put in place in relation to the Matsapha abattoir foot and mouth disease incident were lifted on 23 December 2000
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: SADC to meet over foot-and-mouth, Integrated Regional Information Network, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 05 January 2001 -- The Southern African Development Community (SADC) plans to hold discussions over a foot-and-mouth disease crisis affecting member countries, according to news reports.
• Foot And Mouth Disease In Uruguay, Office International des Epizooties, Disease Information, Vol. 14 - No. 1, 05 January 2001 -- The period of observation of the sentinel animals in place since 7 December 2000 has ended without any evidence of infection with the foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus having been detected, either during the daily clinical examinations or through the serological tests conducted on blood samples collected on the 7th, 14th and 28th days (the last collection of samples taking place on 3 January 2001).

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