1.   Although the basic epidemiology in beef herds is similar to diary herds, the influence of immune adult animals grazing alongside susceptible calves has to be considered.

2.   In the livestock sector, the dairy breeding herd continued to fall while the beef breeding herd continued to increase.

3.   In the long run, though, thinning out the U.S. beef herds would mean an increase in price in two to three years, probably stoking food prices.

4.   Oesch and his fellow researchers set out to form their company as Switzerland was battling the deadly disease in its beef herds.

5.   But the other EU nations demanded that London also order selective slaughter of cattle in beef herds most affected by mad cow disease.

6.   The money will be shared out among the EU countries on the basis of the size of their beef herds.

7.   But the new evidence caused Britain to suspend a selective cull of its beef herd.

8.   Under the Irish proposals, the new aid will be distributed among the member states in proportion to the size of their beef herds.

9.   The disease has ravaged British beef herds.

10.   The EU Commission is to repeat a proposal that a ban on the export of gelatine, tallow and semen originating from the British beef herd, be removed.