----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Man contracts Foot And Mouth Disease!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Putterill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:59 PM
>
> > > Not affect tourism!? Is he nuts..of course it will affect tourism!
> >
> > Well I was in Cumbria last weekend for a short break and I have no
worries,
> > believe me the panic over Foot & Mouth is completely over the top. This
> > disease is really dangerous only to one thing - the economy of any
country
> > that suffers an outbreak, it doesn't even kill animals except in rare
>
> Well it sure is a *major* issue here in the Isle of Man right now!
>
> In about one month, the famous annual Isle of Man TT motorcycle races are
due to
> take place, where tens of thousands of bikes and bikers converge here for
two
> weeks. It is two weeks in the year where the economy makes more out of
tourism
> than it does for rest of the year on tourism.
>
> Right now foot and mouth hasn't reached here, but of course if the TT
races go
> ahead there is a very real danger, with all of those people arriving from
all
> over Europe (and the world) and camping in fields as they travel and
arrive
> here, that the disease could be bought here.
>
> The goverment has a very tough decision to make - cancel the TT and wipe
out the
> most lucrative two weeks for tourism, or allow it to go ahead and wipe out
the
> entire farming industry here.
>
> These are real issues regardless of the severity of the disease itself.
>
> Adrian Cooper.
As I said, the real danger is to economies and in particular tourism. I hear
they have cancelled the first 3G mobile trials on the Island too, there
doesn't seem to be much good news around this week at all.
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