31.   Emergency vaccination in the hardest hit areas aims to buy the government time to gain control of the epidemic by minimizing the spread of infection.

32.   Earlier, the hardest hit areas were in the Northwest Frontier Province and neighboring Baluchistan province.

33.   EU officials said any vaccination campaign would be limited to the English counties of Cumbria and Devon, which are among the hardest hit areas.

34.   Farmers in badly hit areas are advised to sell their stock before feed runs out.

35.   Five roads remained closed in one of the hardest hit area of Jefferson Township, Loock said.

36.   For at least two months the police and paramilitary rangers have been conducting sweeps through the hardest hit areas confiscating weapons and arresting hundreds of people.

37.   Four more people were reported killed in La Huerta, a small town in the hardest hit area.

38.   Ho said the worst hit area was Sipitang where firemen were faced with the daunting task of putting out peat fires.

39.   In the worst hit areas of KwaZulu-Natal province, the population has already started to drop as the death rate outstrips the number of births.

40.   In the worst hit areas, the group said, government statistics show more than three-quarters of the herds have died.