Irish hit by export ban after virus outbreak

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Series Details 23.3.01, p1
Publication Date 23/03/2001
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On 22 March 2001 the Irish Republic confirmed its first case of foot-and-mouth disease. The European Union imposed a ban on all exports of Irish livestock able to carry the disease and a ban on the export of meat and milk from an area surrounding the affected farm.

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