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Foot And Mouth

(August 2007)

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noggin Founding member
tvarksouthwest posted:
So the latest outbreak has been sourced to...a government laboratory! It gets better. Nice to see New Labour hasn't lost its touch.


Has it? Last I news report I saw suggested that it MIGHT have been either the Govt Lab or the Commercial Lab on the same site, or it could have been neither...
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tvarksouthwest
Whichever lab is to blame (if either), the fact that they share a site was always going to make one as complicit as the other.

Meanwhile evidence of government screw-ups continue - modern MAFF has been criticised for not closing public footpaths in the infected area, concerns have been raised about transporting the carcasses to Somerset, while there are suggestions they knew about the current situation at the end of July but kept quiet.
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gilsta
Have Sky got any news on the cause of the outbreak? BBC are still waiting for official report and don't seem to be expecting anything dramatic but ITV have said, from half 6, that it was the result of human contact.

EDIT: C4 are also reporting it was an accidental / deliberate human action, from sources, nothing on Beeb.

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