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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

Katie Jones
Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
clock • 1 min read
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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