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

[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 this, it is almost (completely?) impossible to trade meat with
>countries when you have vaccinated the animals.  Vaccinated animals can
>still carry the disease and other countries obviously do not want to
>get it.
>Vaccination is part of a larger solution which still involves culling
>infected animals, and *also* animals that have been vaccinated
>againsed the
>infection.

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.

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