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to the border with Ireland could have caused immense loss of life --

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van bomb. Time for reporters. -- Reporters.

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Liberia's former president is found guilty of aiding and abetting war

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crimes in Sierra Leone. We returned to Sierra Leone as the shakes off

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its violent past. Attack to with acid. The Pakistani

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women's side for life by their husbands.

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Reporting from inside America's high-security Research Laboratory,

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where they are leading the investigation into bovine foot-and-

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mouth disease. The former president of Liberia,

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Charles Taylor, has been found guilty by a special court in The

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Hague of aiding and abetting war crimes committed by rebels in

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Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s. The rebels armed by Charles

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Taylor were responsible for crimes against humanity including murder

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and recruiting child soldiers. Ten years of war reduced Sierra

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Leone to a poverty it has not yet escaped. Here, children scavenge in

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the rubbish of four pieces of plastic they might sell for pennies.

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This patch of land is still known as the happy t care although it has

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now long gone. In the 1990s, it was home to a segment of men, women and

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children who had their limbs severed by a machete or axe. This

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was the call card of the rebel army. They took my food and cut it off

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with an axe. Not in one blow. It took five or six times.

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He says he had heard of Charles Taylor on the radio threatening to

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make Sierra Leone taste of the bitterness of war. This is my

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strong conviction that everything that happened to Sierra Leone was

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Charles Taylor's doing. I will be happy if I see him behind bars and

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not breathing be seen air that we brief -- not breathing the same air

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that we breathe. If Charles Taylor was the president of the

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neighbouring state of Liberia and has been on trial in The Hague 4th

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last four hears. The indictment charges him with terrorising

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civilians, unlawful killings, sexualises, abductions and the use

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of child soldiers. -- sexual violence. Three hours away from

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Freetown, the memory of war his role. Rolls threat -- swept through

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here in an orgy of burning and looting. The air is no industry

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here. This woman is making palm oil with Iron Age technology. They are

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at last were dumped in the town's water supply. -- they are at last

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for rebuilding the town's water supply. The war stopped all

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progress here. Change is coming at last and it is the Chinese and will

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bring it. Chinese money is about to put a rubber plantation here, a

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pineapple rove and rice fields. Chinese are making very the loose

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in Sierra Leone. They have injected $1.2 billion into like a culture.

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That will help to increase the economy and the status of the

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people. We are expecting 10,000 jobs as a result. In Freetown,

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there is more evidence of Chinese letter change. We ran into a

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technicians supervising a road- building project. Lives are being

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changed. They are training me and I am so

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happy to work with them. They have trained to be as a surveyor.

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So lonely, the wheels of economic activity are turning again. There

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are vast resources in this country. The red dust indicates high

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concentration of iron ore. The London mining company has just

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reactivate of his mind. It has been dormant since the 1960s. Employment

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will be approximately 2,000 people. In the second phase, that will be

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another 20 years and it will require a larger workforce. Of this

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land is astonishingly wealthy in minerals.

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This country and its people's fortunes could be turned around.

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But this is a curse as well as a blessing because this is what

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brought war to Sierra Leone in the first place and this is what paid

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for it to continue for so long. It was diamond mines that built

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Charles -- brought Charles Taylor to Sierra Leone.

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Democracy in this country is very securely. This government came to

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power after winning elections. This does not happen often in many

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halves of Africa. The transition was very smooth.

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The trial of Charles Taylor has been an ongoing part of that

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transition. For many here, if it is a stepping stone on their return to

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normal life. Acid attacks on women are a horror

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story of our times. The cruelty, paying an disintegration are almost

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unimaginable but it is a real and regular danger for women in

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Pakistan and several neighbouring countries. Hundreds of them every

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year are attacked by men they have supposedly defending. This report

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contains distressing images. This young woman has been scarred for

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life with versions of 15% of her body. Her name means candle. Like

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many of a Pakistani women, she says her husband doused her in acid. She

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was too proud of her beauty, he said.

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TRANSLATION: I feel pain at what I was and what I have become. All the

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colours have gone for my life. I feel like I am a living corpse.

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She is one of the newest arrivals in this dilapidated hospital. The

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doctors tried to relieve her pain but cannot ease her despair.

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TRANSLATION: I cannot say anything about the future. Maybe I will not

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be alive. I will try to return to how I was. I have to work to build

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a future for my children and if I cannot, I will do what one or two

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of the women have done. They killed themselves.

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This was one of those girls. This is what she looked like 13 years a

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go before acid was flung in her face. Her former husband from a

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powerful family was acquitted of the crime. This was her after the

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attack. She endured almost 40 surgery is before committing

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suicide of last month. In this hospital, there are new cases of

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acid attacks every week. The laws here have been tightened. Offenders

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can be sentenced between 14 years and life imprisonment. Campaigners

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say most of these women have never get justice. This former MP who

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sponsored the new law says most attackers still get off Scot free.

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It is the easiest way to punish a woman because if the woman does not

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want to every two what the man wants to do, you can destroy her

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entire life in one second and that's all it takes. Them, even if

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he gets caught, he can pay a drive and get away with it. Another

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victim has just arrived. The fabric of her clothing is eaten away by

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the acid. She says her son-in-law to this after a small family

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dispute. He ate least is in custody. The government admits it has got to

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do more for women like her but says implementing the new law is a major

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challenge. Doctors told us many victims are forced to return to

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road toll mentors, to the houses or in-laws who decided them because of

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social pressures or money problems. Children come to visit their mother.

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She tells them to the good and pray that she gets better. For their

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sake, she will try to keep going. In recent weeks barely a day has

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passed without a new development around the sacked Chinese

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politician at the heart of a major scandal, Bo Xilai. His wife has

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been investigated for the murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood.

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It has emerged that Bo Xilai ordered the phone-tapping of many

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Chinese leaders. It is the question that will not go away, how did Neil

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Heywood died at this hotels last November? China has promised the

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rule of law will prevail. As more dark secrets emerge, will that

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happen? The 41-year-old British businessman may have been made if.

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Bo Xilai has been sacked and is under investigation. -- murdered.

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There are rumours that Bo Xilai's wife was behind the murder. This

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city and its surroundings home to 20 million. The signature policy, a

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crackdown on crime. Smashing mafia gangs. Thousands were arrested.

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Many were businessmen tortured and forced to hand over their wealth.

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This billionaire is in hiding outside of China. He says he was

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held for three months, accused of crimes he did not commit and

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tortured by Bo Xilai's henchman. He agreed to pay millions to secure

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his own freedom. When he fled China, he says his family were arrested as

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well. My brother was tortured for six days and nights. He is innocent

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but sentenced to 18 years in prison. He adds there are thousands like

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him. Bo Xilai chilled able to silence them. He deserves to die. -

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- killed people. Bo Xilai's city is the fastest-growing in China.

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did many good things. Like many supporters, she wants him

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reinstated. Bo Xilai's popularity became a threat to the other grey

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men of China's Communist Party. Well China now reopen not just Neil

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Heywood's case but hundreds more? This foreign businessman says he is

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too scared to go back until China has the rule of law and democracy.

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Many victims wait for the day they will see justice. Sri Lanka remains

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a world famous for its tea, which is one of the country's major

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exports. Many of those who work in the industry leave in -- live in

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poverty. Sales are being delayed, workers are being let off. The

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landscape is breathtaking. From the forested hillside, to the huge

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areas clade 40 in the 19th century. The work under the sun is quite

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gruelling. Normally two leaves and a Bard at every time she plugs. The

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women's pidgins are carefully weighed. -- pigeons. If it is 18

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kilograms, they get $4. Any less they get $2. T worker salaries were

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recently doubled, their lives are still difficult. They are still

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some of the world's poorest people. There is no water or electricity.

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The young family has been hit hard by rising cost. Some days they do

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not all eat a square meal. Kerosene was raised by 50%. Now they cook on

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wood. It is very difficult now. Goods are very expensive. My

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husband does odd jobs with no secure income. We mainly depend on

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my salary. As soon as I get paid all the shop owners who have given

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me loans come to my doorstep to take the money. Team moves from

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bush to Cup in barely 24 hours. It is left for eight hours to weather.

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It is rolled, fermented, dried and baked. Delicious. Despite the

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world-beating quality of the sale on tea, its markets are under a

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cloud. Iran, Iraq and Syria are free of the largest buyers.

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Political turmoil means that prices are falling and orders are delayed.

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He says they face financial difficulties. Some of their

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colleagues face closure. We cannot run our factories. The price of tea,

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320, the cast is more than that. with plantation owners barely

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breaking even, producers are finding new ways to add value to

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the crop. For those who make tea, these are tough times. An outbreak

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of mad cow's disease in California has highlighted the risk that

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infection poses to the livestock industry. That is why the US

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government treats diseases as seriously as terrorist threats. The

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BBC has gained access to a high facility research facility where

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scientists have developed a new vaccine against food and now. That

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vaccine will be licensed in the coming month. -- foot-and-mouth.

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These were the images that one decade ago shocked the world. The

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bucolic farmland of Britain scarred by buyers of burning animals.

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Slaughtered to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. US

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government scientists on an island laboratory have come up with a

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vaccine they hope will run it -- remove the need for future cars. It

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has taken me one of to get my security clearance, but I am here

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on Plum Island. This is where a scientists work with animal viruses.

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Even though foot-and-mouth cannot affect humans, the economic

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consequences of an outbreak are so severe that the Government treats

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the disease as a terror threat. have 100 million head of cattle. We

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export one-third of up pigs. The impact that industry, with a

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disease that is so rapidly transmissible, would have impacts

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of $50 billion. Tests on livestock cannot tell the difference between

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an animal that has been vaccinated and one that has had the disease.

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That can stop trade. Disease-free countries were not by infected it

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made. -- will not buy. This has been one of the most important

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innovations in the last 60 years. As well as conducting research,

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scientists are the first line of defence against any suspected

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outbreak of foot-and-mouth on mainland America. There has been

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more than six alerts already. This is where higher priority cases...

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We need to test that within 24 hours. Usually we get a result

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within four hours. Foot-and-mouth it is the US government's biggest

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concern. Other animal diseases are being discovered that could be

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equally devastating. Last year, Schmallenberg was identified in

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German livestock. It has spread into other European countries. A

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new vaccine for foot-and-mouth is within reach. The threat from other

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