Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-26 Thread Will Jessop
- Original Message - From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:54 PM Subject: Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21) So a program of vaccination and slaughter to erradicate the disease will firstly benefit the tourist

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread will
In countries where the virus is endemic, veterinarians must vaccinate at regular intervals. The vaccines only offer protection for a short period of time, are expensive, and in some cases contain live viruses that may infect the animals. Added to this, it is almost (completely?) impossible

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Mison
On 25/05/2001 at 15:08 +0100, will wrote: In countries where the virus is endemic, veterinarians must vaccinate at regular intervals. The vaccines only offer protection for a short period of time, are expensive, and in some cases contain live viruses that may infect the animals. Added to

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Mison
On 25/05/2001 at 15:40 +0100, will wrote: The massive British export meat market was worth... 300 million UKP last year. Tourism makes billions. The British rural economy could survive with no exported meat. So a program of vaccination and slaughter to erradicate the disease will firstly

RE: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Robert Thompson
From: will Of course we could just build a super-gun (a-la iraq) and shoot bloated carcasses at Redmond. This is my favouite idea. Pigs In Space Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender,