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Too many labs keep dangerous cattle plague: OIE chief

17/04/2013

Too many laboratories have samples of the cattle disease rinderpest two years after it was eradicated, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said. Member countries committed to destroy their samples or pass them on to a handful of approved high-security laboratories when the world was declared free of rinderpest in 2011. But two years...

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