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Tests underway after virus 'link'
Brown and Benn pursue lab leak link

A report into the origins of the foot and mouth outbreak is expected within 48 hours, the prime minister has confirmed. Officials from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are investigating claims a biosecurity breach at a private laboratory could have reintroduced foot and mouth to the Sussex countryside. Initial tests… Read more »

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Gordon Brown: We will work "night and day"
PM vows to beat disease

Gordon Brown has pledged that the government will do everything in its power to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease in Britain. The prime minister said that officials had been working “night and day” since symptoms of the disease, endemic among cattle, were reported at a farm in Surrey on Thursday night. “We… Read more »