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History of United Kingdom Foot & Mouth Epidemic 2001-2
Part 9: the Healing & Transformation Phase
January 2002 to July 2003
(22 months after last outbreak in UK epidemic)
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History of United Kingdom Foot & Mouth Epidemic 2001-2
Part 9: the Healing & Transformation Phase
January 2002 to July 2003
(22 months after last outbreak in UK epidemic)
(external links open in new window)
Foot and Mouth Epidemic 2001 - UK database: July 2003Meat Smuggling - Risk Assessment and Control: April 2003Exotic Disease Epidemics - Controlling Risks and Costs: March 2003Foot and Mouth Disease - New Technical Manual: OIEContiguous culling & FMD Bioterrorist Threat Simulation: February 2003Interferon Antiviral Therapy For Foot-and-mouth: Journal "Nature"UK Government expands sustainable development programme: Quality of LifeComputer modelling Foot-and-Mouth vaccination: December 2002International epidemics - EU review of responses: FMD lessonsNew national exotic disease surveillance system for UK: December 2002
- over 50 first-hand accounts + 83 photographs -
compiled by BBC Radio Cumbria
"Foot and Mouth - Heart and Soul"
A diary of the 2001 FMD epidemic
details & content
UK Government response to foot-and-mouth inquiries: November 6th 2002
- newly published 2002 -
"Foot and Mouth: The Aftermath"
A collection of photographs
by
Ian Geering
review
Farmers will pay more costs in future disease epidemics: FMD consequences"Emergency vaccination, allowing animals to live,What can be done with dysfunctional farms? - epidemics find the weak spotHealing the wounds of the world's worst FMD epidemic (Farmtalking discussion):
Lessons learned from the FMD disaster:
"There are no insuperable problems with vaccination, whether technical, scientific, trade or cultural"
Sir Brian Follett, Chairman of the Royal Society Inquiry
"We take the view that food from vaccinated beasts does not need to be labelled"
National Consumer Council
"The contiguous cull has been exposed for what it was: one of the most bloody, tragic and disgraceful misjudgements made in the name of science"
Anthony Gibson, NFU South West Region Director quoted on www.warmwell.com
International Epidemiologists Honoured: ProMEDRoyal Society Inquiry - vaccination recommended, computer modelling criticised:- just published -
"Of Love and Slaughter"
rural drama and romance novel
based on real-life interviews and investigations in Devon
during the tragic foot-and-mouth epidemic of 2001
(book or audiotape)
preview & discount ordering
10 % chance of initial negative in the foot-and-mouth diagnostic test: TelegraphFoot and mouth disease scare was a useful warning: BBCSuspected case of FMD 26th Feb: BBC DEFRAEffect of FMD crisis in UK - The Shepherd's Story : ignorance breeds crueltyFoot and mouth crisis in Europe 2001-2 European Commission overview: PDF fileFoot and mouth disease free (FMD-free) countries - non-vaccination: OIE list & mapThe shocking toll of the world's worst FMD disaster:Easing of foot and mouth restrictions - livestock markets: February 2002Foot and mouth gives landscape a fresh look
The foot-and-mouth disease slaughter has cleared cattle and sheep from vast areas of farmland, but it has been "boom time" for wild flowers, grass and ground-nesting birds. The new landscape is beginning to resemble the flower-clad fields of Victorian England and the... quote from The Times June 20th, 2001
Foot-and-Mouth Disease: Photos & Resources
