Vietnam Reports Outbreak of Foot-And-Mouth Disease

[webnarc]

This is a good reason to consider eating meat from other sources (dog, cat, horse); we need to diversify global livestock to avoid these disastrous ramification of a viral outbreak. It's a nasty thought but these disease WILL make it to North America and devastate our food supply.

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=4310771&section=news

Vietnam Reports Outbreak of Foot-And-Mouth Disease

Mon 9 February, 2004 04:37

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam, already grappling with bird flu that has wiped out millions of its poultry and killed 18 people in Asia, has detected a lethal outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in one province, a health official said on Monday.

"The disease has hit us very hard," said an official at the animal health department of the central province of Quang Nam, about 465 miles south of the capital Hanoi.

She said the disease had killed more than 1,000 cattle and 200 pigs from six districts in the province.

"We will try to save the cattle by injecting vaccines but all infected pigs will be slaughtered and destroyed," she said.

Quang Nam is the only province in the country that has reported confirmed cases of the disease, the official said.

Bird flu sweeping parts of Asia has killed 13 people in Vietnam, and five in Thailand, but foot and mouth disease is harmless to humans, though highly contagious among animals.

Henry Schmick, Agricultural Officer at the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, told Reuters that foot-and-mouth outbreaks are not unusual in Vietnam and the region.

"Periodically, Vietnam suffers from foot-and-mouth disease," he said, adding that it can take a mild form.

Vietnam is not a major exporter of pork or beef, he said. The southeast Asian country has a cattle population of nearly eight million and about 23 million swine.

[NavyDave]

I thought this was going to be about how all of a sudden being a vietnam vet is now fashionable in the democratic party

When not to long ago an admitted draftdodger was the face of their party.

[webnarc]

Originally posted by NavyDave

I thought this was going to be about how all of a sudden being a vietnam vet is now fashionable in the democratic party

When not to long ago an admitted draftdodger was the face of their party.

:rotflmao: I don't think this can be directly blamed on either party.

[Johnny Punani2]

I've started eatting Ostrich. It's pretty tasty stuff. Very similar to beef in taste but lower in sat fat.