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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8035

29 August 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/foot-and-mouth
Commission considers there to be a "slight risk" of further propagation of foot-and-mouth in Europe

Brussels, 28/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - The outbreak of further cases of foot-and-mouth cases in Northern England, where no cases had been reported for three months, does not present a major risk for the herds on Continental Europe, a European Commission spokesperson declared on Tuesday, saying that the risk was "rather limited". She added that the embargo on the export of British cattle, meat and products derived from animals at risk made it unlikely that the virus would cross the Channel....

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