By PAUL AMES, Associated Press Writer AP Germany's Minister for Agriculture Renate Kuenast, left, gestures while speaking with Sweden's Minister for Agriculture and President of the Council of Ministers Margaretha Winberg during a monthly meeting of Agriculture ministers at the EU Kirchberg building in Luxembourg, Tuesday April 24, 2001. We will succeed in eradicating the disease.
Environmentalists claim the pyres have released dangerous levels of cancer-causing dioxins.
It's up to the government to minimize the risks, which is what we've set out to do. The slaughterer was tested Monday for the disease, and the results are not yet known. His name has not been released. A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said he understood that the man, who was working in the hard-hit county of Cumbria in northwest England, was moving a rotting cattle carcass when it burst, sending fluid into his mouth. Although the Netherlands is still registering new cases, with 26 farms infected, no other cases have been found beyond two in France and one in Ireland discovered almost five weeks ago.