An outbreak of foot and mouth disease has interrupted race meets and horse transport in Great Britain and Ireland. Foot and mouth disease is an acute, highly contagious, viral infection of domestic and wild cloven-hooved animals. Horses are resistant to the disease, but can transmit it to livestock if they have traveled through a contaminated area and carry it on the surface of their
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