Samples from suspect Louth lamb sent for tests

Officials from the Department of Agriculture will send samples from sheep showing symptoms of foot-and-mouth for tests to Pirbright in Surrey this evening.

Officials from the Department of Agriculture will send samples from sheep showing symptoms of foot-and-mouth to Pirbright in Surrey this evening.

The lamb is among a consignment of sheep at a farm on the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth - near last week's outbreak at Proleek.

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