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SV. Dr Tsortsakis seated at desk.
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SV. & CU. White mice in box.
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CU. Mice taken out of box and put into jar.
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SV. Mice being anaesthetised.
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CU. Doctor removes brains.
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SV. Doctor at work.
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LV. Assistant working in laboratory.
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SV. Ditto.
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SV. Breeding section of laboratory.
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SV. Man holds up mouse.
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CU. Mice in case.
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LV. Assistant working.
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EDITORS: For details on the disease in Cyprus see Prod. 5951/60.

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Background: Thousands of mice are being used at the Greek Ministry of Agriculture's Foot and Mouth Disease Research Laboratory in Athens, where a vaccine is extracted from the brain of these little animals, in order to combat epizootia - the African horse sickness which is rampant in Asia and the Middle East, and has now spread to Cyprus.

Research at the Athens laboratory is under Dr Nicholas Tsortsakis, a specialist in the disease, who hopes to be able to mass produce the epizootia vaccine and to prevent a serious outbreak in Europe.