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. The virus is already suspected to have come from one of two nearby laboratories working on the disease and its vaccine.

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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. The virus is already suspected to have come from one of two nearby laboratories working on the disease and its vaccine.

Read the story here.