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OPINION: "Talk of foot-and-mouth will have sent shivers down the spine"

Farmers Guardian livestock editor Katie Jones discusses the importance of thorough border controls to ensure disease is not imported into the UK

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Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
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Foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in water buffalo in Germany
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Foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in water buffalo in Germany

The news this week that foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in water buffalo on a farm in the east of Germany, almost 40 years since the country's last confirmed case, is a stark reminder that this...

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