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Re: Foot-and-mouth - latest developments including overnight news

Here's another interesting story from one of today's papers: European Union inspectors are expected to arrive in the UK on Monday (17 Sept) to investigate the resurgence of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey. Officials at the European Commission's animal health unit have warned that a strict...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Johann on Sun, Sep 16 2007
Re: Foot-and-mouth - latest developments including overnight news

The Sunday Telegraph has picked up on news that the virus could have gone unnoticed for more than a week at Stroude Farm, near Egham. It says animals probably harboured the disease for up to three weeks because their lesions were 10 days old and had begun to heal. Johann

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Johann on Sun, Sep 16 2007
Re: Overnight news on foot-and-mouth

I was hoping this thread wouldn't be cluttered with non FMD "stuff"! Anyway, here's an update on Sunday morning (12 August)... Leading virologist Professor Oxford of Queen Mary's School of medicine is claiming the F & M outbreak is over. http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Julian Gairdner on Sun, Aug 12 2007

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