11.   Cattle in those areas will be monitored, with whole herds slaughtered if signs of the infection are found, he said.

12.   Farmers sometimes dose a whole herd even if just one animal is sick, an AMA official explained.

13.   The finding is reassuring for many conservationists who had worried that the reintroduction of predators could lead to the extinction of whole herds of prey.

14.   The finding is reassuring for many conservationists who had worried that the return of predators could lead to the extinction of whole herds of prey.

15.   Which may lead, in turn, to whole herds of animals that are veritable drug factories.

16.   British Minister of Agriculture Douglas Hogg who will be in Brussels on Tuesday, said there was no question of destroying whole herds of cattle.

17.   But countries such as France, which have slaughtered whole herds because of a solitary case of BSE, are unlikely to be convinced by this argument.

18.   But other EU countries want to see this supplemented with the selective slaughter of whole herds that have a history of BSE infection.

19.   But countries such as France, which have slaughtered whole herds because of a solitary case of BSE, are unlikley to be convinced by this argument.

20.   Under French regulations the whole herd must be destroyed.