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Published online 6 August 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070806-1
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Foot and mouth disease returns to the UK
Laboratories under the spotlight as disease found on farm.
Foot and mouth disease has once again appeared in the United Kingdom, a country whose farming industry was devastated by an outbreak in 2001. On Friday 3 July, the country's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed it had identified the disease virus in cows on a farm in Surrey.
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