Originally from: Pat Gardiner
                        
As you all know I have long been convinced that, whatever MAFF – Defra said, Swine Fever was imported into England in live imports or semen from China.

I knew they were lying about the source, as they did about FMD too, but did not know what the truth was likely to be, until much later.

I have only just found out today that I was not the only one that thought the source was Asia and the route – breeding materials. Someone actually claims to know.

Within a couple of weeks of the outbreak starting, the Irish published this:

"The source of the outbreak on British Quality Pigs' farms in Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk has been traced to an imported Asian boar. The disease had been absent from Britain for 14 years. Restrictions have now been lifted on 7 of the 32 farms within the control zone and the export ban imposed by the EU Standing Veterinary Committee last week is now confined to the three infected counties."

It seems they were less intimidated by Maff-Defra than anyone here.

Regards Pat Gardiner