The foot-and-mouth battle is won, but now the trade war begins FINAL Edition 1

Mark Woolhouse, professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University and leader of one of the four scientific teams advising the Government, said that to meet the summer target it would be crucial to continue culling all animals on an infected farm within 24 hours of a positive diagnosis, an...

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Published inIndependent (London, England : 1986)
Main Author Michael McCarthy, Steve Connor, Ben Russell and Nigel Morris
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Independent Digital News & Media 21.04.2001
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Davies, Gareth
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Summary:Mark Woolhouse, professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University and leader of one of the four scientific teams advising the Government, said that to meet the summer target it would be crucial to continue culling all animals on an infected farm within 24 hours of a positive diagnosis, and on neighbouring farms within 48 hours. "If you accept that the culling programme is having an impact, then anything that detracts from that will only serve to prolong the epidemic," he said. His good news on the epidemic was overshadowed by the bad news about its aftermath. Britain had assumed that the pounds 630m annual export trade in livestock, meat and livestock products, banned since the beginning of the outbreak, could resume three months after the last case, or, if animals were vaccinated, one year after the last vaccination. Those are the accepted guidelines laid down by the Office International d'Epizooties (OIE), the animal health watchdog based in Paris.
ISSN:0951-9467