In message <[log in to unmask]>, Mary
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>Isn't it also kind of an attempt to scare people off of meat??
>
>They are cancelling events left and right in the UK and IReland, all the
>parades are getting cancelled.
>
>If you dare to go there you are "disinfected" the moment you get there.
>
>Also, I sniff a vaccine in the making??Scare everyone to death and then
>roll out the vaccine for FMD??

I'm in the UK and I think the culling and precautions are
totally justified.

This is why; In the Spring of 1919, the strain of influenza
('flu') was a normal "nothing to worry about" bug.  By
the following Winter it had mutated into a killer which
wiped out 40 million people across Europe.

It has been shown that humans can catch "foot & mouth",
albeit mildly.  So we cannot take the risk that a large
animal-disease 'pool' could eventually throw up a
deadlier human-infecting mutation.