The United States and Janpa have banned British pigs and pork products. Cabinet Minister (Ed Miliband) expressed sympathy for Britain's farmers.

美国和日本已经禁止从英国进口猪和猪肉制品。内阁大臣Ed Miliband向英国农民表示了慰问。

"That is automatically imposed as a result of the finding of foot-and-mouth disease, (that is obviously very) worrying for many farmers in this country and (obviously our) thoughts are with them today."

“这种举动是发现口蹄疫后一种习惯性的反应，很明显这种反应对我们国家的许多农民来说是非常令人忧心的，当然我们对农民的关心也会时刻伴随着他们。”

Foot-and-mouth disease affects animals with (cloven) hooves, such as cattle, pigs, deer, goats and sheep. An investigation into the specific strain of the disease has been launched to determine its origin.

口蹄疫能使诸如牛、猪、鹿、山羊、绵羊之类的偶蹄动物感染，对于该疫情根源的调查研究已以进行，以判定其来源。

Microbiologist (Hugh Pennington) says learning that quickly is (absolutely) crucial.

微生物学家Hugh Pennington表示尽快地认识清楚它是极其重要的。

"Has this (virus seeded) itself anywhere else in the country for example? So, it would be very important to try to find out where the virus has come from, (there are) lots of different ways (through which that can be done), for example fingerprinting the virus to find out (whether) it is a South American virus or a virus from Asia for example."

“比如这种病毒有没有在我们国家的其它地区进行传播？因此，努力找到病毒的发源地就显得非常重要。它还有可能通过其它的渠道进行传播，比如通过病毒自身独有的特征来查明它是来自于南美洲还是亚洲的病毒。“

Mr. Brown has promised a major effort to fight the spread of the disease. Given the (incubation period) of the virus, it should be known within the next week whether efforts to isolate have been successful.

布朗首相已承诺将尽全力防止疫情的蔓延。如果该病毒还是处于潜伏期，那么在下周内对于隔离是否成功就会见分晓了。