Diet enacts special law on foot-and-mouth disease

TOKYO, Japan - Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Hirotaka Akamatsu (front) bows in appreciation after the House of Councillors passed legislation to allow the central government to forcibly slaughter livestock to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease at its plenary session in Tokyo on May 28, 2010. The new law on measures against foot-and-mouth disease is expected to be promulgated next week and take effect immediately in the face of the rapid spread of the contagious ailment among livestock in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan (Kyodo)

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