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MANHATTAN -- William "Bill" White, director of the Foreign Animal 1xbet online sports betting Diagnostic Laboratory at the Plum Island Animal 1xbet online sports betting Center, New York, said he hopes one of the outcomes from the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility at Kansas State University will be to perfect pen-side tests that would allow medical professionals to determine if farm animals are susceptible to foot-and-mouth 1xbet online sports betting .

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