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UK FMD Outbreak Weekly Update ? New Outbreak Confirmed -- September 12, 2007 September 12, 2007 — Harry Snelson [ALERT] Sept. 12 - DEFRA has confirmed a new outbreak of FMD on a cattle farm in Egham, Surrey located approximately 10 miles from the sites involved in the outbreak which began on Aug. 3rd. (Source:... UK FMD Outbreak Daily Update August 14, 2007 — Harry Snelson [ALERT] UK FMD Outbreak Daily Update ? August 15, 2007 DEFRA lifts the 2 Temporary Control Zones established on 8/14/07 following negative test results.DEFRA stands down vaccination teams. Government...

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Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues