Vaccinations key to avoiding repeat of 500m pound foot-and-mouth outbreak

From: The Scotsman | Date: July 16, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

LAST year's foot-and-mouth epidemic cost Scotland's rural economy more than GBP 480 million - but the emotional toll on farmers and the public of mass animal slaughter was even more significant, a report published yesterday claimed.

The study, by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), concluded that vaccination must be used to fight the spread of disease in any future outbreak, alongside the slaughter of confirmed infected animals. The RSE's committee of inquiry, under Professor Ian Cunningham, noted that almost three-quarters of the 735,000 cattle and sheep slaughtered on 1644 farms in ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Food firms fury over vaccination.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) ; Byline: SEAN POULTER THE vaccination of 180,000 cattle against foot...and food manufacturers believe vaccination would have a disastrous knock-on...The Prime Minister's push for vaccination began last Thursday when he held...
Inquiry says vaccination the way to fend off FMD
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman ; VACCINATION; a "Territorial Army" of vets...s rural economy more than GBP 480 million and saw the slaughter...A main recommendation is vaccination. Arguments about vaccinate...For good scientific reasons, vaccination should be given serious consideration...year's epidemic developed, ...
Can vaccine stop foot-and-mouth? Defra step up fight against disease with vaccination test.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) ; ...FORGRAVE Rural Affairs Editor THE role vaccination could play in a future outbreak of foot...imaginary outbreak, with a special focus on vaccination. ``It is essential that the department...junior Defra minister. ``The role that vaccination could play in a future outbreak is a...
Vaccination defeat for Government.(Farming Life)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) ; ...for a higher priority to be given to vaccination rather than slaughter in tackling...gave the Government the option of vaccination. He criticised the amendment for giving priority to vaccination in all circumstances. The Government...
Foot-And-Mouth Crisis: Prevention - Farm leaders raise questions over the effectiveness of vaccination
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...in deciding whether to start limited vaccination. If the Government does decide to go...life of the epidemic. The small-scale vaccination being proposed in Cumbria and Devon...considered would count as "regional" vaccination - which does not affect areas where...
Farmers' union faces revolt in vaccination row
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London ; ...course with the Government over the vaccination issue, now faces a growing backlash...NFU's refusal to support a proposed vaccination scheme, and suspicion that the policy...where the decisions are being made. If vaccination was an option for me I'd take it. I...
Farmers' union faces revolt in vaccination row.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) ; ...course with the Government over the vaccination issue, now faces a growing backlash...NFU's refusal to support a proposed vaccination scheme, and suspicion that the policy...where the decisions are being made. If vaccination was an option for me I'd take it. I...
Vaccination ... the big debate: Experts voice their opinion.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) ; ...Government's failure to force a policy of vaccination could lead to the return of mass cases...European community team which set up vaccination banks, said the Government may think...slaughter policy and too slow to advocate vaccination. The professor added that the Government...
A drop of pure gold; Vaccination.(Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ; ...attempts to estimate the economic benefits of vaccination WHAT good is vaccination? Obviously it is good for the person receiving...independent policy consultant, have looked at two vaccination programmes and attempted to calculate the wider...
Fed: Vexation over vaccination goes back centuries
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) ; ...Australia) 06-06-2000 Fed: Vexation over vaccination goes back centuries By Rada Rouse, National...disappeared from developed countries, anti-vaccination sentiment rose. Concerns about adverse...have been introduced. Soon after cowpox vaccination was introduced in the 1790s, a cartoon...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Vaccinations key to avoiding repeat of 500m pound ..."