ARGENTINE FMD OUTBREAK

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has suspended imports of de-boned and matured bovine meat from eight departments in the Argentine province of Corientes, due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The disease has also recently been reported breaking out in Thrace, Turkey, and across Egypt.

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