Sanitary authorities announced the reinforcing of the sanitary alert at ports and airports to avoid the entrance of the foot-and-mouth disease. The virus has spread to the Middle East and to Argentina. The UN is warning of a global threat from the disease and that no country could consider itself safe from the risk. The director of Cattleranching of the Ministry of Agriculture said that meat imports from everywhere but the United States have been banned. For more information on the virus and whom it affects, see http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/02/21/foot.mouth/index.html
