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is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rinderpest, foot-and-mouth and bluetongue disease are all animal viruses that can a farmer. An outbreak of one disease is bad . Britain has been dealing with foot-and-mouth ---- and now first cases of bluetongue. United Nations officials see the arrival of that virus in the United Kingdom as sign of a bigger problem. The Food and Agriculture says animal diseases once limited to warm, tropical climates on the rise around the world. It says countries to invest more to control them. It says things the globalization of trade, the movement of people and and probably also climate change may only further their . Bluetongue can kill sheep and cattle and other ruminant like goats and deer. It does not affect humans. virus is spread by small biting flies called midges. was first discovered in South Africa. It spread widely by the end of the nineteen nineties had crossed Mediterranean. Since last year, bluetongue has been found in countries in northern Europe. There are safe vaccines against of the southern virus, but not yet for the one. But there is better news about one of deadliest of all animal diseases: rinderpest. Some experts are that the world can be declared free of it two thousand ten. This is the goal of the Rinderpest Eradication Program. Vaccines have helped speed the progress. can lead to starvation in areas where people depend cattle and buffalo for food and work. In the hundreds, it killed eighty to ninety percent of cattle southern Africa. After another epidemic in the nineteen eighties, African nations combined their efforts to fight the disease. has also struck hard in central Asia, where it . There have still been some outbreaks in recent years. the World Organization for Animal Health has declared most in the world free of rinderpest. They have not a case for at least five years. Some other have declared themselves free of it for at least years. But they still need official recognition for trade . Other animals affected by rinderpest include yaks, sheep, goats some pigs. It can spread through the air. It also spread through water infected with waste from sick . Some animals die after just a day or two. that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Watson. Im Steve Ember.

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