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Call for suspension of all cattle imports

THE Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed that five out of a batch of nine Bazadaise cattle, legally imported to a farm near Blackpool, Lancashire, have tested positive for the BTV1 strain of the bluetongue virus.

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ROG WOOD

THE Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed that five out of a batch of nine Bazadaise cattle, legally imported to a farm near Blackpool, Lancashire, have tested positive for the BTV1 strain of the bluetongue virus.