Radio Australia
British
farmers are facing potential ruin as scientists work around the clock to trace
an outbreak of the highly contagious foot and mouth disease. In
the meantime, a total ban is in force on all meat and livestock exports from the
United Kingdom. Matt
Peacock reports
There've been no new cases of foot and mouth disease confirmed
since it was first discovered earlier this week at an Essex abattoir, where the
quarantine zone has now been extended to nearly twenty kilometres. Another abattoir
in Surrey has been closed whilst a suspect animal was investigated, but it's now
been given the all-clear. In the meantime farmers have warned that they could
face ruin if the ban on meat and livestock exports continue for weeks, as some
experts have predicted. | 
