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Mon 08 Aug 2007Cross-Border efforts aim to stop spread of foot-and-mouthCo-ordinated planning is proceeding in the Republic and Northern Ireland to guard against the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain spreading to Ireland.The British government's investigation into the outbreak confirmed on a Surrey farm last Friday is focused on two laboratories that share the same site at Pirbright near the affected farm.