Roe deer may have transmitted foot and mouth disease August 5, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : foot-and-mouth, UK , trackbackBy scouting around discussions on the internet it is clear that an uneasy relationship exists
between farmers and government departments and vets. There’s also a body of well informed knowledge in the public domain which sometimes challenges the idea that authority knows best. Ahead of the mainstream media then, here is the story that roe deer may be responsible for transmitting the 01 BFS 67 foot and mouth disease virus between the Surrey factory which manufactures vaccines for export, and local farms such as that where the current outbreak began. From http://www.warmwell.com/:
Foot and Mouth disease UK 2007
Roe deer move between Pirbright and local farms.
“Roe deer occur widely on Surrey’s commons, and were even recorded on quite small sites in relatively built-up areas”: (DEFRA funded wildlife project pdf) . The A31, inside the 3km exclusion zone, had to be disinfected yesterday because a deer was hit by a car. Woolford farm is separated from Pirbright by an arable farm, a wood and a golf course. It does not take much imagination to predict that any escape of the 01 BFS 67 virus from IAH Pirbright or the Merial laboratory could now be infecting these deer.
It is a vaccine strain 01 BFS 67 - one that was being used at Pirbright in July
Professor Hugh Pennington interviewed on BBC News 24 gives as his opinion that the source virus is identical to that in vaccine work being done at Pirbright and very possibly excaped from there.
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