The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it will increase Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) surveillance in the U.S. in the wake of September's terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York City's World Trade Center.
"No potential FAD cases should be disregarded," USDA said in a September, 11 memo. "Potential hoaxes should be treated as real incursions of FADs until proven otherwise. Specific attention should be directed at livestock and poultry concentration points."