Re: foot and mouth

From: Jonathan Clarke (jdac@alphalink.com.au)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 18:48:59 EDT

  • Next message: Tim Ikeda: "Re: Distal vs. proximate: Timing of design events and Pax-6"

    Hi Michael

    "it has raised many questions about our style of farming whether in the UK, USA or Australia."

    What questions?

    Jon

    > "M.B.Roberts" wrote:
    >
    > For the last two months a major item of news each day has been the number of FMD cases.
    >
    > This has varied from 4 to a peak of 50 or so. It is not as bad as some reckon as in Wales there have been 64 cases out of 20,ooo farms
    >
    > This week cases has tumbled , but yesterday they gave an inaccurate figure. The official figure was 3 , actually it was 7 as 4 humans were diagnosed with it! The press failed to pick up the sick humour.
    >
    > To be serious now it has raised many questions about our style of farming whether in the UK, USA or Australia
    >
    > Michael



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Apr 27 2001 - 18:42:29 EDT