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Post by Dabbit on Aug 8, 2007 1:20:10 GMT -5
You may have heard that we have once again got a couple of cases of foot and mouth. However they now suspect that this was sabotage and that the virus was purposely released into the community. Who? What? Why?
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Post by lorakeet on Aug 8, 2007 1:58:09 GMT -5
I think its terrible, I know the animals have to be destroyed but I read somewhere that most would survive if the disease runs its course surely if that is the case the animals would then be immune to it and pass that onto their offspring, why can,t they just be isolated untill that has happened, with all the research thats done you,d have thought diseases like this would have been erradicated by now.
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Post by Dabbit on Aug 8, 2007 11:35:23 GMT -5
I can't understand why they can't immunise the animals Squirrelann
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Post by lorakeet on Aug 8, 2007 11:56:00 GMT -5
I would say because the vaccines would make the meat unedible, but if it was a natural imunity that would be different, I know you would have to put the animals under cover as the disease is airborne as well as transfrered by contact/carrier but slaughtering the animals hasn,t stopped the disease and I think they think the easiest quickest way to deal with it, surely anything is better than just mass killing, it really annoyed me when that sacred bullock was killed because it was TB positive, it had and wasn,t likely to have any contact with other animals and I,m sure could have been treated and cured of the disease, I felt really sorry for the people who live in that commune.
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Post by Mark on Aug 8, 2007 13:33:50 GMT -5
It's been reported in the News here in the States that the contamination came from within laboratories somewhere in or near Surrey and that it could either be accidental or sabotage, but that they don't really know for sure. One would think that decontamination of anyone leaving laboratories such as those would be part of the normal routine, and that if the disease organisms did get out, that it would have to be a purposeful thing much like the Anthrax attacks here several years ago.
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Post by Dabbit on Aug 9, 2007 2:35:41 GMT -5
Squirrelann I'm not sure the vaccine would make the meat inedible would it? I recall the pictures from the last outbreak and that of the Bernard Matthew scare of the mass culling and thought it was horrid, I often wonder what if one of the animals isn't actually dead before they burn them?
According to our news reports Mark the staff are meant to completely strip in a special room then put on overalls. Upon their exit they remove the overals put them out for wash - shower themselves - then put their own clothes on for leaving the building, by all accounts if it had been done how it was meant to be it wouldn't have been leaked. Someone obviously got lazy and thought 'oh well it's OK' or something and left without bothering with the routine...
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Post by Mark on Aug 19, 2007 9:53:04 GMT -5
Could be. But that sort of devil-may-care attitude is near-criminal in itself, IMHO - look at the consequences! Happens a lot, I'm afraid. The 'not my job' attitude, or, 'what the heck?' syndrome.
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