Laboratory in UK foot-and-mouth probe (CNN.com) British farmers are being urged to remain vigilant for signs of foot and mouth among their livestock, amid speculation that the virus may have leaked from a nearby laboratory. [News Source]

Australia’s 2007 Beef Export Forecast Raised 3.3% (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Beef exports from Australia, the world's second-largest shipper of the meat, may be 3.3 percent higher than forecast because of the slower-than-expected re- entry of U.S. supply into Asian markets, an industry group said. [News Source]

U.K. braces as livestock disease resurfaces (International Herald Tribune) Health inspectors combed two veterinary laboratories Sunday after a strain of the livestock disease was found on a nearby farm. [News Source]

U.S. beef age limit to be eased this year. The government will move forward on easing the age limit on U.S. beef imports, officials said after two days of bilateral working-level talks in Tokyo. [News Source]

Experts search UK lab for foot-and-mouth (AP via Yahoo! News) Biosafety experts scoured a rural laboratory Sunday in a hunt for the possible source of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease on a southern English farm. [News Source]

Lab likely source of UK foot-and-mouth (AP via Yahoo! News) Hopes rose Sunday that a potentially disastrous foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain could be contained, as scientists grew increasingly suspicious that the disease came from a high-security laboratory near the infected farm. [News Source]

Health Highlights: Aug. 5, 2007 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: [News Source]

Lab likely source of UK foot-and-mouth (AP via Yahoo! News) Hopes rose Sunday that a potentially disastrous foot-and-mouth outbreak in Britain could be contained, as scientists grew increasingly suspicious that the disease came from a government animal laboratory near the infected farm. [News Source]