Europe's foot-and-mouth crisis went global as the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the Middle East and Asia imposed limits on imports of meat and dairy products from the European Union. E.U. health commissioner David Byrne called the moves excessive and threatened to take the case to the World Trade Organization. In Britain, officials planned "preemptive" killing of up to 1 million animals to contain the infection, which grew to more than 260 confirmed cases since the first outbreak in February.
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E.U. governments, led by Britain and...
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