Foot & Mouth

Rich Warren rich.warren at BTINTERNET.COM
Wed Mar 21 14:59:07 EST 2001


Well it's pretty bad up here, I work just round the corner from the main
auction mart in carlisle, and next door to Maff here, it's swarming with
troops, and they've trebled the size of the maff offices, the pub where that
senior Government vet was getting slow handclapped is where I go for lunch.
The whole area is on a downer.  Our receptionist is a farmers wife, and
they're one of the farms infected.

If I go up to my mums which is a bit nearer the countryside you can smell
the burning sheep :-(

It's dire.

Rich W


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Siegerman" <erics at TELEPRES.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:30 AM
Subject: Foot & Mouth


> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:51:34PM -0000, Jill Strobridge wrote:
> > It's just as well Glastonbury has already been cancelled this year.
> > My guess is that it would have been very unlikely to go ahead if
> > that had originally been the intention.   In fact I hope Michael
> > Eavis's cows are ok!
>
> I was just checking the web site.  Glastonbury proper is *just*
> outside one of the "infected areas" ... for now ... so I suspect
> you're right.
>
> Stonehenge is closed, and it's rather farther from any infected
> areas.
>
> > A show in London will be no risk at all but Devon has major problems
> > just now.    I don't know if Dave (Hawkwind) will be affected by
> > this?    Anyone?
>
> Honiton's not listed at the moment, but it's less than 10 miles
> from an infected area.  And of course I have no idea where their
> place is in relation to the village.
>
> Dave, Kris: I don't know whether you folks keep livestock.  If
> you do, my fingers are crossed!
>
>
> FYI, here's the British Agriculture Ministry's Foot & Mouth "hub"
> page:
>         http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/default.htm
>
> Their information on "infected areas" (ie. areas so declared by
> the Ministry -- they don't use the word "quarantine", but that's
> pretty much the gist of it):
>         http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/areas.htm
>
> --
>
> |  | /\
> |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
> |  |  /
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
> necessarily a good idea.
>         - RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)
>



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