This message is from: Fiona Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Merek
well of course Im no expert but Im keeping an eye on the British Horse Society web site for updates re Horses and MAFF (ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food) for the rest and the army are not killing every animal in sight , The MAFF are only at those farms that have tested positive and then they test all animals with in a 5 or 10 mile exclusion zone according to the MAFF site only cloven hoof animals suffer from it (sheep, pigs, goats and cattle)and in wild amimals(the type we have ) Deer , which apparently are very susceptible to it and can die from it. Hedgehogs , rats and very strangely the list said Elephants! They are not putting horses down but people have been asked not to ride out, hunting has stopped racing every thing their is a national ban on the moving of all live stock, as a big problem is this very infectious virus can be spread by lorry tires , our shoes, horses shoes , cats , dogs ,even my bike tires The National Trust have closed all there Deer parks, as have the big parks in london, this evening they closed Dartmoor national park as it has a big deer population and is not so far from one of the farms that has been found to have FMD unfortunately that farm in Devon is a big exporter in Europe, so many places in Europe are also taking precautions if your place is found to have it the MAFF will put down every animal that can get FMD and the owner will get compensation later, its so infectious its the only way to stop it you can find out more at www.maff.gov.uk or The British Horse Society at www.bhs.org.uk (look under latest news) Fiona in Yorkshire, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OK, question here. Friend in the UK says that if foot-and-mouth is found in > an area or on a facility, the Army kills ALL animals on the scene, even if it > would be a fancy English riding stable. Horses and all get the chop. Given > that they are not susceptible, but can only carry it physically, meaning they > could be quarantined or disinfected, this seems unreasonable. Of course, in > the UK, they don't own guns and could not offer resistance to the soldiers, > as we could here under such circumstances. Anyone know for sure what the > practice is here and in the UK to deal with such a situation. I could see a > major uprising if a stable owner was told his whole herd was to be killed > over a disease they can't even get. Comments? Merek
