George Frederick Watts paintings

George Frederick Watts paintings
Guercino paintings

The disease that has ravaged Britain's livestock for months may have struck its first blow against the human population.
Britain's Department of Health says it is "urgently investigating" the case of a slaughterhouse worker who officials say is showing "all the symptoms" of foot-and-mouth disease, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.The man, who works in Cumbria, northwest England, was said to be experiencing symptoms just like the animals infected by the disease — blisters on the hands and feet and inside the mouth.However, it will take at least 48 hours to confirm if he indeed has the disease, health authorities said. If it is foot-and-mouth, it would be the second human case ever diagnosed as such in Britain. The previous confirmed human case in Britain was in 1966.