11.   The government has relaxed its policy of slaughtering livestock on farms next to infected sites, and has declared some previously infected areas disease-free.

12.   Frightened islanders of Ambae, fearing the eruption of a volcano, are slaughtering their livestock and heartily consuming their food reserves, a village chief said here Monday.

13.   Nascimento said medical evidence showed four of the victims were slashed with a knife used by farmers to slaughter livestock.