Article: K-State Researchers Predict That an Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Could Cost Kansas Nearly a Billion Dollars.

M2 PRESSWIRE-27 November 2007-K-STATE: K-State Researchers Predict That an Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Could Cost Kansas Nearly a Billion Dollars(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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MANHATTAN -- As much as $945 million. That's what agricultural economists at Kansas State University say could be the impact on Kansas' economy were there a large-scale foot-and-mouth outbreak in a region thick with livestock operations.

"If such an outbreak were to occur, livestock and meat commerce, trade, and movement would be halted," said Ted Schroeder, a K-State professor of agricultural economics. "That represents a very, very expensive endeavor."

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