Foot-and-mouth plan used flawed study

May 22nd, 2008 By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer AP: Foot-and-mouth plan used flawed study (AP)

This undated file photo provided by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows Plum Island Animal Disease Center off the coast of New York's Long Island. The Bush administration relied on a flawed study to conclude that research on a highly infectious animal disease could safely be moved from an isolated island laboratory to sites on the mainland near livestock, congressional investigators concluded in findings obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/ARS-USDA)

(AP) -- The Bush administration relied on a flawed study to conclude that research on a highly infectious animal disease could safely be moved from an isolated island laboratory to sites on the mainland near livestock, congressional investigators concluded in findings obtained by The Associated Press.



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