1.   A highly contagious livestock ailment, foot-and-mouth disease poses no threat to humans and rarely kills animals.

2.   A highly contagious livestock ailment, foot-and-mouth disease poses no threat to humans.

3.   Fears intensified that the highly contagious livestock ailment could spread to continental Europe.

4.   Foot-and-mouth disease has spread to continental Europe, with France announcing its first case of the highly contagious livestock ailment on Tuesday.

5.   Meanwhile, officials were setting about the grim task of burning the carcasses of hundreds of animals slaughtered in an effort to contain the highly infectious livestock ailment.

6.   Officials in northern England began the grim task of burning the carcasses of hundreds of animals slaughtered in an effort to contain the highly infectious livestock ailment.

7.   Racing resumed in Britain on Wednesday after a weeklong suspension due to the outbreak of the highly infectious livestock ailment.

8.   Six months after the first cases of the contagious livestock ailment were confirmed in Britain, rural life has begun to return to normal.

9.   The livestock ailment is almost always harmless to humans, but it has cost the farming and tourism industries millions of dollars.

10.   The scare over foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea escalated Saturday after the government detected the deadly livestock ailment on four more farms south of Seoul.