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World Bank loan to fight foot and mouth in Uruguay
Last Updated: 2006-12-20 15:36:58 -0400 (Reuters Health)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $6.5 million loan to prevent further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Uruguay and establish a system for tracking livestock to keep the country free of the virus.
Foot-and-mouth disease, found in cloven-footed animals, is highly contagious and is generally harmless to humans but it cripples animals' reproductive capacity and is shunned in world markets. The bank first backed Uruguay's Foot and Mouth Disease Emergency Recovery Project in 2001 with a loan to contain and mitigate the impact of an outbreak of the disease. The current loan would help upgrade existing laboratories to improve diagnosis and testing for the disease, and will strengthen its monitoring and surveillance ability to not only detect foot and mouth, but also bird flu, the bank said. "The additional financing will also make sure that state-of-the-art regional information and tracking capabilities allow fluid communication with neighboring countries," said Alvaro Soler, the bank's task manager for the project
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