British foot and mouth outbreak spreads

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GUILDFORD (Reuters) - Britain confirmed a second outbreak of foot and mouth disease in a herd of cattle in southern England Tuesday, raising fears the highly damaging animal disease may spread.
The owner of the first farm where the disease broke out said he was "completely shocked and devastated" by the outbreak which forced the slaughter of his entire herd.
Lending weight to one theory of how the virus spread, farmer Roger Pride said a sewer in a field where his cattle were grazing had overflowed.
Animals from both sites have been culled and 3 km exclusion zones and 10 km protection zones set up around the farms and the site of two research laboratories which have handled the virus.
"We've got to keep on top of this outbreak and make sure it doesn't spread anywhere else," Environment Secretary Hilary Benn told BBC television.