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  • November 2007
    • UK Farmers Facing Tax for Cattle Outbreaks

      UK Farmers Facing Tax for Cattle Outbreaks

      (Newser) - UK farmers face an $82 million tax bill to pay for curbing cattle infections. Farmers are likely to gripe, the Guardian reports, because diseases have already slammed profits—and the government is to blame for leaking foot and mouth disease from a lab last summer. But the environment ministry is cutting $615 million and must balance the books after recent outbreaks. More »

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      agriculture   outbreak   livestock   disease control   Foot and Mouth Disease

  • September 2007
    • Bluetongue Means Crisis for UK Farmers

      Bluetongue Means Crisis for UK Farmers

      (Newser) - Bluetongue cases will keep infecting UK cattle and mire farmers in a financial crisis, possibly for years, the Guardian reports. Almost a dozen cows have been hit so far, the first tremor of UK bluetongue after 3,000 cattle were hit this summer in Northern Europe. So far Gordon Brown has set up a protection zone and vowed to find a bluetongue vaccine. More »

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      Great Britain   outbreak   cattle   bluetongue   Foot and Mouth Disease

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