On Saturday, the Diario Libre newspaper reported that United States beef would continue to enter the Dominican Republic, in spite of the mad cow problem recently detected in the Pacific Northwest. The Dominican Republic, Bolivia and El Salvador were, at that time, the only countries that had not suspended imports of United States beef. On Monday, however, all of the papers, including the Diario Libre, carried stories on the cancellation of all beef imports from the United States, on a temporary basis. Jairon Severino, from the Listin Diario, reports that beef and beef products have been temporarily prohibited from entering the Dominican Republic as a result of the discovery of the EEB disease in cattle in several US states. Marcelino Vargas, the director general of livestock for the Dominican Republic, issued the decree on Sunday. The prohibition includes live animals, meat, meat products and byproducts of animal origin.