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Thierry Chillaud, of the OIE in Paris, says the high frequency of animal transport and exchanges among many countries makes foot-and-mouth resistant to many efforts to stamp it out.
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Mud sucked at their boots as they ran alongside a ten-foot-high wall that enclosed the animal pen.
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When Hakan Svartvik saw animal tracks in the fresh snow, he stopped and followed them on foot.
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources followed with its own study, which found that when lead bullets explode inside an animal, imperceptible particles of the metal can infect meat up to a foot and a half away from the bullet wound -- farther than previously thought.
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Their size suggested that the animal was about 30% larger that today's camels, measuring about 2.7m from foot to shoulder.
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The World Organization for Animal Heath reported in January that Chinese authorities culled 948 pigs in southern Guangdong Province after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease there.
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"Other jump races have uniform fences with a standard height of 4 foot 6 inches (1.4 meters), " Dene Stansall, horse racing consultant at Animal Aid, told CNN.
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