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| Experts Declare "Mad Cow" Emergency Over in Italy |
| An international conference of scientists in Turin on Friday declared the "Mad Cow" emergency over, saying that the public could now eat beef without fear. |
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| British Army Again Joins Battle Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease |
| The British army is being called in again on Friday to help the fight against foot-and-mouth disease in Northumberland, northeast England, after a further three cases were confirmed. |
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| U.S. to Relax Ban on European Meat Soon |
| The United States will soon relax a ban on imports of European meat and livestock imposed two months ago to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Friday. |
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| Three More Countries Suspend Meat Imports From Brazil |
| Britain, Saudi Arabia and Russia decided on Thursday to suspend imports of Brazilian meat after two foot-and-mouth disease hot spots have been detected in Brazil's state of Rio Grande do Sul, local media reported on Friday. |
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| Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spreading in Uruguay |
| Foot-and-mouth disease is spreading in Uruguay, where 90 cases of the disease have been detected, Uruguay's Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fishing Gonzalo Gonzale confirmed on Tuesday. |
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| Britain's Foot-and-Mouth Disease "Fully Under Control" |
| The British government's chief scientific adviser David King said on Thursday that the foot-and- mouth outbreak was "fully under control". |
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| Dutch Farmers Protest Against Animal Killing |
| Several people were arrested Friday by the riot police after they set a truck on fire when Dutch farmers took on street to protest against the killing of healthy livestock as the only measure to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. |
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| Foot-and-mouth Disease Rumor "Groundless": FM Spokesman |
| Reports by some British media saying that the current foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Britain might have come from China are "groundless", said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi. |
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| UK Diplomat Stresses on Safety to Visit Britain |
| British Consul-General Sir James Hodge said here Tuesday that it is safe to travel to Britain despite the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which is highly infectious among the livestock and some wild animals. |
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| Shanghai Goes Genetic in Battle With Mad Cow |
| Local researchers recently announced they have developed a genetic technique for screening beef products that is expected to help the country fend off Bovine Spongiform Encepholapathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. |
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| China Bans Import of Cloven-Hoofed Animals, Products from Holland, Ireland |
| China has banned the import of cloven-hoofed animals and their products from Holland and Ireland as a precaution against foot-and-mouth disease, found in the two countries last week. |
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| Britain to Kill All Livestock Near Foot-and-Mouth Sites |
| Britain will kill nearly all livestock on farms near to foot-and-mouth infection sites, Agriculture Minister Nick Brown announced Saturday. |
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| Second Outbreak of FMD Found in France |
| France on Friday extended measures taken to stop foot-and-mouth disease to a nationwide scale after a second outbreak of the illness was discovered on a farm just outside the capital. |
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| UK Foot-and-Mouth Cases to Reach 4,000 by June |
| Britain was heading for a "very large epidemic" of foot-and-mouth disease with a total of 4,000 projected cases by June, a government report warned on Friday. |
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| The Netherlands Allowed to Use Vaccines to Fight FMD |
| European Union (EU) veterinary experts agreed Friday to let the Netherlands to use vaccines limitedly in fight against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). |
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| Foot-and-mouth Disease Vaccine Developed in China |
| Chinese scientists have developed a vaccine that can prevent pigs from catching foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). |
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| Foot-and-Mouth Cases Hit Daily Record in Britain |
| Forty-five new cases of foot-and- mouth disease have been confirmed in Britain on Tuesday, the highest daily total so far, bringing the total number of outbreaks across the country to 394, the Agriculture Ministry said.
Most of the fresh cases were in Cumbria, northwest England, the area where the livestock virus appears to be concentrated. |
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| Britain's Foot-and-mouth Cases Figure Reaches 335 |
| Nine more confirmed new cases on Monday took the number of outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain to 335, agriculture ministry officials said. |
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| Confirmed Foot-and-Mouth Cases Top 300 in Britain |
| The British government was stepping up pressure on farmers to accept a pre-emptive cull, as confirmed foot-and-mouth cases stood reached 309 on Sunday and it is estimated the outbreak will cost the UK economy 9 billion pounds (13 billion US dollars). |
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| Britain to Kill Healthy Animals Despite Farmers' Protests |
| The British government's proposed mass cull of livestock in areas worst hit by foot-and-mouth is to go ahead "as soon as possible," despite protests from farmers. |
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