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USDA Press ReleaseFrom the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Press Secretary Alisa Harrison, March 13, 2002 Samples from cattle from Kansas were tested tonight at U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Animal Disease Laboratory at Plum Island, New York. Tests were negative for the Foot and Mouth Disease virus. As part of USDA’s monitoring and surveillance program, we routinely investigate reported cases of animal conditions for foreign animal diseases. In 2001, we investigated and tested approximately 800 cases. All were negative. Today’s test was part of our ongoing surveillance activities. USDA and state animal health personnel are in the fields and port-of-entry every day monitoring for foreign animal diseases. The United States has not had a case of FMD since 1929. |