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LONDON-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday that authorities were doing "everything in our power" to track the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak and wipe out the animal illness before it wreaked economic devastation.Meanwhile, Britain imposed a voluntary ban on exports of livestock and livestock products,the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.The ministry said the ban applied to animals with cloven hooves such as cows,sheep and pigs.It covers live animals,carcasses,meat and milk and is effective immediately.Speaking at his 10 Downing St. office,Brown said experts would work "night and day" to discover the origin of the outbreak on a farm in southern England as fast as possible."Our first priority has been to act quickly and decisively,"said Brown,who cut short a summer holiday to deal with the crisis,which prompted a EU ban livestock imports from Britain.Japan said earlier that it had banned British pork imports.Beef imports from Britain have been banned in Japan since the outbreak of mad cow disease in the 1990s.The EU also banned livestock imports from Britain in reaction to the outbreak.The outbreak is the first known case of the disease in Britain since 2001,when a foot-and-mouth epidemic started with a pig herd in northern England,spread to cows and sheep and eventually led to the slaughter of 7 million livestock,infected more than 2,000 farms and shut Britain out of the world's livestock export markets.The government was accused of reacting too slowly, allowing the highly infectious disease to spread...To read more go to:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070804/britain_foot_and_mouth.html?.v=6
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