Originally from: Burkie
                        
Dear Joyce and Friends: You are all losing the main point....you had an epidemic to fight...and were offerred one machine to test....which was refused outright, by your own people.

That is absolutely ludicrous....especially since advancement of science and technology seems to be so important to your FMD authorities.

The opportunity to utilize this machine and it's technology was refused....yet less than a year later...your Pirbright fellows sent live virus to at least six European laboratories in at least six different countries to "test" the very same machines, and technology....with better results than from an Elisa test.

The REFUSAL TO USE AN RT-PCR WAS PURPOSEFUL.

That decision to not test it during your outbreak is unacceptable.

Burkie in Kansas