[Jacob-list] foot and mouth disease

[sbennett]

Does anyone have any specifics on this disease? The news stories I'm 
hearing are general and contradictory. I tried looking it up on the net 
and didn't get any more real information.

I'm curious because we do have a disease here in the US called 
hoof-and-mouth disease (despite what I just heard on the news-no reported 
cases here since 1927), a virus that lives in the soil and causes sores 
in and around the mouth in livestock and IS transferable to humans, but 
it's not fatal. A kin to getting the chicken pox (I got it many years ago 
after a camping trip with horses). My goat herd contracted it a couple 
years ago and all survived. The Jacobs didn't get it. My older son that 
helps with the livestock, got it. 

So, is this a different or mutated form of the virus and deadly to the 
livestock, or is everybody freaking out over nothing?

Debbie Bennett
Feral Fibre

>We're worried about this foot-and-mouth disease spreading. We're within
>an hour or so drive of three major international airports; I hope
>they're fumigating the passengers from Europe. When I went to New
>Zealand about ten years ago, they fumigated the cabin before they let us
>get off. 
>
>Paul Intihar
>Rainbow Farm