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UK households could face a Christmas cheese shortage - after the outbreak of "highly contagious" diseases which are ripping through farms. The deadly virus can kill between 80% and 100% of infected animals.

There has reportedly been a new outbreak of the deadly plague in Greece that affects sheep and goats. One farmer from the outskirts of Karditsa, a city in the Thessaly region of central Greece, has reportedly lost 650 sheep and goats.

EU regulations state that if a case is detected in any herd, the entire flock must be culled. “I was here the day the sheep were culled,” the farmer told the BBC.

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“It is very cruel. I felt that I failed to protect them.” The first cases were detected in northern

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