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South African dairy farmers on high alert for foot-and-mouth return

Twenty five years since the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK, Chris McCullough looks at a farmer dealing with the disease in South Africa

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South African dairy farmers on high alert for foot-and-mouth return

It was a morning that South African dairy farmers Carol and Craig Houston were dreading, as staff told them 50 cows were showing signs of the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease. Even though the country...

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