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...Europe get into this fix? British veterinary investigators last week zeroed in on Burnside farm, a pig-fattening facility in Northumberland, in the north of England. Vets believe pigs at the unit may have been fed leftovers from local school lunches that possibly contained bits of contaminated meat. The current virus, experts say, is the pan-Asian variant of the "O" type of foot-and-mouth, a highly infectious strain, which could have entered Britain through illegally imported meat. Once the virus got into the pig swill at Burnside, it was too late. A group of pigs from the farm...
...What caused this particular outbreak? No one knows for sure, but the infection is thought to have come from abroad, perhaps Asia, since the U.K. has been disease-free for years. The most likely source is contaminated meat or bones in pig swill at a Northumberland pig-fattening unit...
...they resemble private security guards more than crack troops, something they are painfully conscious of, especially when they meet up with the real army. And when the trucks finally arrived at the gates of the port 3 km away, they encountered soldiers from Jakarta's elite Kostrad rapid deployment unit, recognizable by their smart green berets and camouflage uniforms...
...been decidedly sour. What should have been a simple matter of filling out a few forms and paying a $24 processing fee has become a Kafkaesque ordeal. In October the entry and exit section of their local police station told them they needed to secure permission from their work unit. The work unit chief declined to grant them leave without the permission of the local police. When they went to the Wuhan Ministry of Public Security to ask for an explanation, a political protection officer curtly told them they were classified as "persons possessing state secrets likely to impair national...
HUPD urges anyone with information regarding the incident to call the Criminal Investigation Unit...