on 2/3/01 5:13 am, Dee Dee Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> FMD is highly contagious.
>
> The UK has always had FMD. The last outbreak was in 1981. There was no
> outbreak of FMD in this county due to that outbreak, at that time.
HOLD it a moment .. UK was disease free ... the 1981 outbreak was local to
the Isle of Wight .. and cam from France ... the previous outbreak was in
1967 and again was localised to two counties ...
> If you want to worry, here's something to worry about: the carcasses of the
> destroyed animals are being burned. As we all know, ashes, etc., float
> upward from a fire.
Please believe that the vets and Min of Ag officials do know what they are
doing... these funeral pyres are carefully constructed and the virus is
destroyed .. the prospect of transporting carcasses and or burying them is
unthinkable ...
> Please remember that this is a virus. It's delicate. It can be killed by
> exposure to direct sunlight. It needs a definitive host, in order to live
> and replicate. It's not going to live long on clothes. There is no record
> of any human transmitting the disease to any animal, either by aerosol
> transmission or direct contact.
Right on ...
> I realize this is a dangerous disease. I just hate to see people thinking
> that because there was an outbreak of FMD in the UK, there's going to be
> one here. If there was going to be an outbreak of FMD in this country, it
> would have happened before now, given the traffic between the UK and other
> affected parts of Europe.
And consider the potential form other parts of the world ..the notes I have
seen from Texas etc show that the USDA know where the risks are world wide
and how to stop this dreadful disease getting in ... (just wish commercial
pressures meant we only imported meat from clean countries like USA/Can and
OZ/NZ
FIbertalk...
We are now well in to the fiber flock ...some interesting lambs from
Polwarth cross Jacob ewes and put to Polwarth Shetland and Bleu de Maine
rams...
and now in to the Texel lambing ..ugh...
Robin
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Robin and Margaret McEwen-King at Middletown Farm, Scotland.
The home of Galtress Shetlands & Tamworth/Berkshire Pigs
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http://www.mcewen-king.co.uk
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