Farmers brace themselves for consequences of foot-and-mouth diease (The Arizona Republic) British authorities are looking into the possibility that severe floods in June and July helped spread the virus, which causes blistering on the mouth and tongue of cattle and pigs. Imports of British meat products have been banned by the United States, Japan, Russia and South Korea in response to the outbreak. [News Source]

Revealed: the range of fatal diseases handled at Pirbright (Independent) Research into a range of potentially fatal diseases such as CJD - the human form of mad cow disease - are also handled by the Pirbright laboratories under suspicion as the source of the recent outbreak of foot- and-mouth disease. [News Source]

U.K.’s Brown pledges to combat outbreak (USA Today) Michael Fordham remembers all too well the ravages of the foot-and-mouth epidemic that swept Britain in 2001 millions of cattle destroyed and a personal financial burden almost impossible to bear. [News Source]

UK farmers pray outbreak is contained (AP via Yahoo! News) Michael Fordham remembers all too well the ravages of the foot-and-mouth epidemic that swept Britain in 2001 — millions of cattle destroyed and a personal financial burden almost impossible to bear. [News Source]

EU bans British meat exports after disease outbreak (Reuters via Yahoo! India News) LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union banned all British exports of fresh meat, live animals and milk products on Monday following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, dealing a further blow to farmers. [News Source]

Health Highlights: Aug. 6, 2007 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: [News Source]

Japan studying U.S. data to decide on beef rules. Japan is studying data provided by the United States on U.S. beef safety as it considers relaxing its rules on beef imports, Japanese Agriculture Ministry officials said on Monday. [News Source]

UK focuses on foot-and-mouth lab link (AP via Yahoo! News) A vaccine laboratory at the center of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease said Monday it had found no evidence of a breach in biosecurity, as government officials assessed links between the facility and infected cattle. [News Source]

South Korea Bans British Pork Imports (AP via Yahoo! Finance) South Korea has banned imports of British pork and pigs following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in southern England last week, the Agriculture Ministry said Monday. [News Source]

Japan studying U.S. data to decide on beef rules (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Japan is studying data provided by the United States on U.S. beef safety as it considers relaxing its rules on beef imports, Japanese Agriculture Ministry officials said on Monday. [News Source]