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From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)
> 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.
So a program of vaccination and slaughter to erradicate the disease will
firstly benefit the tourist industry and then also the meat market. Not
that I am a big fan of farmers or the countryside alliance types (and that
is being generous) but I think it would be the best solution all round. Ooo
ar.
Of course we could just build a super-gun (a-la iraq) and shoot bloated
carcasses at Redmond. This is my favouite idea.
