British health authorities announced Thursday they are investigating a reported case of Legionnaires' disease with suspected links to the same laboratory in that has been tied to a recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.
The Health Protection Agency's investigation revealed that the individual suspected of having the disease worked in the ISO10 building at the Institute of Animal Health at Pirbright, in Surrey, southwest of London.
Investigators believe the foot-and-mouth virus may have originated in Merial Animal Health's Pirbright laboratory, which was producing a vaccine for the disease.
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