Diseases Devastate British Producers
UK - The spread of infectious diseases in England has devastated the livestock industry there. A combination of ongoing concerns over foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and now, bluetongue, has resulted in multiple quarantines and bans on shipments of beef...

UK Government Must Compensate, Says NFUS
UK - The UK Government must compensate Scotland’s livestock farmers for the crisis brought about by the release of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) from the government-licensed facility at Pirbright.

First Meat Exports from 12 October, But Strings Attached
UK - Scotland’s farming union has welcomed with relief the news that some fresh meat exports to Europe can begin again from Great Britain from 12 October. The decision is reliant on there being no cases of foot and mouth disease outwith a 200km zone...

Foot-and-Mouth Shutdown Could Not Be At Worse Time
UK - The general public can be forgiven for assuming that the worst of the foot-and-mouth crisis is over: they will have read reports that livestock markets are once again open for business and will believe that farming is more or less back to a state...

New Lab Planned Amid Britain's Foot-and-Mouth Outbreaks
US - The recent spread of a deadly livestock disease from a biolab campus in Britain has not stopped American officials from considering building a new animal disease research lab in the United States.

Relaxation of controls in the south
UK - DEFRA has relaxed the foot-and-mouth status from high-risk to low-risk for a large area of the south east, effective from midnight last night.

Eighth FMD case confirmed
UK - Following further clinical examination and results of preliminary laboratory tests, Defra has confirmed Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) was present at the premises in Surrey where slaughter on suspicion was announced yesterday.

New FMD case under suspicion in surveillance zone
UK - Defra have reports they have taken the decision to slaughter cattle on suspicion of Foot and Mouth Disease on a farm in Surrey.

Green Light For Livestock Markets Is Good News For Farmers
UK - NFU Cymru has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Rural Affairs, Elin Jones that provided that there are no further changes to the disease situation, livestock markets may resume in Wales as of next Thursday, 4 Oct 2007.

Industry Unites To Solve Livestock Problems
UK - The Scottish agricultural industry has joined forces to address the various livestock problems caused by Foot and Mouth disease.

FMD Disease Restrictions To Be Eased
UK - The government's chief vet is to ease some animal restrictions imposed after the outbreak of foot-and-mouth, despite a seventh case being confirmed.

Foot and mouth was four weeks old says report
Animals at a farm in Egham had foot and mouth for four weeks before it was reported according to a Government study.

Seventh Infected Premises confirmed in Surrey
UK - Defra have confirmed that test results for Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) at the site where it was decided that cattle should be slaughtered on suspicion earlier today were positive.

Fears Grow That Foot And Mouth Is Spreading
HAMPSHIRE - Farmers feared that the foot and mouth outbreak was spreading last night after a control zone was set up in Hampshire following the discovery of an animal with suspected symptoms.

New Temporary control zone established in Hampshire
UK - Defra have confirmed that a 3km Temporary Control Zone has today been put around a premises near Petersfield, Hampshire.

Sixth case of foot and mouth confirmed
UK - Defra have confirmed another case of foot and mouth on a farm in southern England, the sixth outbreak of the disease since August.

Easing movement restrictions on a regional basis will bring anomalies
UK - Establishing a risk-based regionalisation system to allow trading to restart after foot and mouth looks like a sensible way forward on the face of it, writes Livestock Editor Jonathan Long.

Defra rejects plea by Scottish Government for welfare cull
SCOTLAND - Defra has claimed that it has no money for a welfare cull of hill lambs despite the Scottish Government stressing that it has a moral responsibility to pay for it.

Warning after outbreak tape cut
UK - Taped cordons securing a foot-and-mouth protection zone in Surrey have been cut.

How did the foot-and-mouth virus spread?
UK - Cheif veterinary officer Debby Reynolds announced to the assembled media with a smile that she was ‘satisfied that foot-and-mouth disease has been eradicated from the UK in 2007’.