The UK's main animal disease facility has been left to deteriorate to an alarming extent leaving the country vulnerable to major outbreaks on the scale of the devastating 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, MPs have warned.An inquiry by the Public Accounts Committee found that the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in Weybridge was continually vulnerable to a major breakdown because the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had comprehensively failed in its management of the site.
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