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USDA WORRIES LIVESTOCK ILLNESS
MAY BE USED AS A BIOLOGICAL
WEAPON
May 08, 2001
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Chris Baker
The Washington Times A germ warfare attack on farm animals instead of humans
is, according to this story, a rapidly emerging threat, and recent livestock
epidemics like foot-and-mouth disease show just how fast and far
"agro-terrorism"
could spread. Mark Urlaub, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
biosecurity
program, was cited as telling a conference on terrorism preparedness in
Salt Lake City
last week that instead of using anthrax to make people sick,
terrorists might try to infect animals with diseases like the foot-and-mouth
virus,
which has devastated Britain's farming industry, adding that agro-terrorism
would
have "instantaneous effects on the economy.
We are talking about enormous values (in commodities lost) It can destroy
trade
relations between countries." The story says that animal diseases have
become a
big concern for the $55 billion-a-year livestock industry in the United
States.
Investigators are taking another look at the 1989 "medfly" outbreak in
California, he
said. The Mediterranean fruit fly, which attacks more than 250 species of
fruits
and berries, is regarded as the biggest agricultural threat in California,
home to
a $25 billion-a-year farming industry.
Mr. Urlaub was further cited as saying that the "bizarre" pattern of the
1989
outbreak combined with at least one ringe group claiming responsibility
left terrorism experts wondering, adding, it could well have been an
intentional
introduction." The United States has not ad a confirmed case of
foot-and-mouth
disease, sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, since 1929. But the virus
would
cost the country $5 billion in cattle and pork exports if it were to spread
here, according
to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has never been
reported in this country, although similar diseases in elk and sheep have
been
confirmed. Foot-and-mouth and BSE have swept Europe in recent years.
Britain alone has confirmed 1,541 cases of foot-and-mouth disease
and 180,000 cases of BSE-infected cattle. A swine epidemic, thought
to be unintentional, killed 4 million animals in Taiwan before it was
brought
under control, Mr. Urlaub said. The Department of Agriculture was cited as
saying last Wednesday it will add canine sniffing dogs and extra security at
the Salt
Lake City International Airport in February when that city hosts the 2002
Winter
Olympic Games. But it is almost impossible to prevent terrorists from
bringing diseases
like foot-and-mouth to the United States, according to Niall Finnegan,
director of
governmental relations for the American Veterinary Medicine Association.
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