And, sadly, just like foot and mouth disease, election fever has spread from England to Northern Ireland.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Newspapers across continental Europe are signalling alarm about the spreading foot and mouth disease in Britain.
The Munich-based paper admits that "food and mouth disease is a giant economic problem" that could ruin the livelihoods of many farmers.
The next day, two siblings aged 14 months and 30 months died of what was suspected to be hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD).
It is also called hand, foot and mouth disease because of the red spots that appear on the soles, palms and mouths of victims.
The World Organization for Animal Heath reported in January that Chinese authorities culled 948 pigs in southern Guangdong Province after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease there.
Italy's Corriere della Sera focuses on the problems and issues faced by the European Union in light of both the mad cow crisis and the foot and mouth disease.
Great Britain's economy is reeling from the cumulative effect of outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as Mad Cow disease, and more recently Hoof and Mouth disease.
Not coming from a county greatly affected by foot and mouth disease, despite seeing the news on the TV, I was completely unprepared for the scenes that I saw when I arrived.
The vet's prognosis -- foot and mouth disease -- marked the beginning of a six-month nightmare that saw Oswestry reduced to a ghost town and the entire British farming industry pitched into crisis.
WHO's China representative, Hans Troedsson, expressed concern about the unusual concentration of cases in Anhui, and about the occurrence of pulmonary and neurological symptoms not typically seen with hand, foot and mouth disease.
The Order of the Bath goes to Debby Reynolds, the government's former chief vet, who led efforts to deal with this year's outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu.
Foot-and-mouth disease causes blisters on the mouth and feet, fever and loss of appetite.
Hundreds of thousands of rural business owners are having a torrid time due to foot-and-mouth disease, and the manufacturing sector has been crippled by the strength of the pound.
The United States reported its last outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 1929, while Canada and swathes of Central America have been free of the virus since the early 1950s.
Conservative peer Lord Inglewood, who farms in Cumbria, disclosed that foot-and-mouth disease had been confirmed on his sheep and dairy farm near Penrith over the weekend.
Foot-and-mouth disease affects animals with cloven hooves such as pigs, sheep and cows.
The company blamed media coverage of the hoof-and-mouth disease plaguing European cattle farmers for part of the decline, coupled with a surplus of both beef and pork for a decline in exports to Japan and South Korea, where it had strong sales last year.
The regulations, brought in following foot-and-mouth disease, are expected to be cut to six days.
Meanwhile, the province's farmers are waiting to see whether further cases of foot-and-mouth disease emerge.
It was the rapid unrecorded movement of livestock which caused foot-and-mouth disease to spread out of control.
Beef export volumes rose by 86% last year, thanks partly to efforts to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
This threatens beef exports: European Union rules bar mixing cattle with beasts that may have foot-and-mouth disease.
Scotland's tourism industry has been badly affected by the restrictions imposed in the wake of the foot-and-mouth disease.
In some countries, indeed, vaccination is the method used to control foot-and-mouth disease.
After helping Maff during the 1967 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, he moved to Kenya in 1968 where he worked until 1974.
Britain's livestock industry has come to a complete standstill after the government banned the transport of all animals that could carry foot-and-mouth disease.
LONDON, England -- Seven more cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been confirmed in the UK, taking the total number of sites affected to 39.
They will discuss how they can allow people onto their land without undermining the current restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
The planned cull is part of a joint effort by the Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland governments to try to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
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