Uruguay Now Blames Argentina for FMD

Originally from: Burkie
                        
Aftosa is Spanish for FMD. The Uruguayan govt is mad as heck.

They now blame their outbreak on Argentina and De La Rua's administration for covering it up!

It only cost them some $500,000,000.00

That's cheap by U.K standards!

Burkie in Kansas

 Uruguay: they blame to Argentina of to have lain on
 the aftosa bud

 [ 28-Seth-02 ] – minister of Cattle ranch and Agricultura of
 Uruguay, Gonzalo González, affirmed that the appearance of
 aftosa fever in its country "is a gift"...

 ... which they must entirely "to Argentina", and he made
 responsible to the government of then president Fernando of the
 Rúa of "to have lain" on the sanitary situation of the cattle.

 "It is a lie that has cost us already more than 500 million dollars",
 it emphasized González, in reference to the fall of the exports of
 meat by that sum since the aftosa appeared in Uruguay, in April
 of 2001.

 The minister said that "it was a frightful play, because there are
 things that do not become. And if they do not watch Uruguay,
 that detected the problem not well he announced it to the world
 ".

 In declarations to the newspaper the Country, of Montevideo,
 González extended its critics to the Argentine cattle dealers, who
 "also lay to us" in relation to the aftosa bud.

 The Newspaper – Between Rivers

 Commentaries (click on eliminating its commentary)
 
 Andrieu, Luis Alberto:
 "According to which he says east article minister
 Gonzalez of Uruguay would seem that but he is
 not that ela has lain him in Argentinean on
 custion d aftosa, but that Gonzalez has been
 infected of the Argentine politicians, throwing
 always the fault to him to demas of the things
 that happen to us. If the civil employees and
 technicians, as much Argentine as Uruguayan,
 had fulfilled their responsibilities, neither the
 Argentinean had received animals with aftosa of
 Paraguay and Brazil, nor Uruguay had received
 animale "
                        

Originally from: chris stockdale
                        
Dear Mary,

93. Without wishing to draw you into personalisation, which you have sought to avoid, you do report that the Chief Veterinary Officer was aware of the lack of progress on contingency planning. I think the Drummond Report had reached his level within the organisation. Do you feel that greater urgency should have been shown by him and his team in responding to that?
 (Dr Anderson) Yes, I do. I think this Report is a very important statement in the context of the history of the epidemic. It was provoked as early as 1998 when discussions within the State Veterinary Service raised concerns of potential weaknesses. It was published in February 1999 and was reviewed at intervals all the way through until July 2000 without any substantial progress being made but always with calls for the need for that progress to be made. Then in July 2000 as you know it was overtaken by events. I think that is unfortunate. 94. Even more unfortunate when the external warnings of foot and mouth disease spreading in Asia and Africa and the potential implications of that were known in the veterinary community and within the veterinary community in MAFF?
 (Dr Anderson) Yes, that is correct.

 You will probably recognise the extract above from the Select Committe proceedings you posted this am. My query is -- which 'events' of July 2000? The only item I have found of relevance at that time was the outbreak in Greece, reported in 'The Report of the Chief Veterinary Officer, Animal Health 2000' MAFF Publications, as follows (P.50)
 "Foot and Mouth Disease(FMD)
An outbreak of FMD in the eastern regions of Evros and Xanthi was contained quickly through whole herd stamping out. The first case was confirmed on 10 July 2000 on a premise that grazes in the vicinity of the Turkish border. Further spread in Evros occurred through common grazing and resulted in another nine confirmed cases during July and August. Two cases recorded in August in the neighbouring perfecture (sic) of Xanthi after personel (sic) movement.The last two cases were confirmed mid-in Evros and were attributed to transport contact. The virus was typed as ASIA 1".

 Remember Simon Walters article in the Mail on Sunday of 18th March 2001, on the closure of the special unit at Tolworth to monitor animal dealings, which concluded "Industry insiders believe a rogue dealer brought the foot-and-mouth virus in (in) a dirty lorry".
 Were they right? Or did this trigger a careless vaccine trial that went wrong ?

 We do not know, yet, but interestingly, page 47 of the same document reports an outbreak of Theilriosis in a research Institute farm in Scotland . I quote "It is likely that infection arose as a result of cross contamination during blood sampling of animals which were part of the Institute's programme of research aimed at developing an improved vaccine against T. annulata.
 As the natural vector of T.annulata does not exist in GB, spread within the dairy herd is believed to have been caused by poor blood sampling techniques." -- presumably, economising on needles . No direct relevance -- I don't even know what Theileriosis is -- just an instance of vaccine research going wrong attributable to cheapskating (and poor bio-security).
 Best wishes, Chris
                        

Originally from: Mary Critchley
                        
Dear Chris

I was just thanking you for this yesterday when the machine crashed – as usual. It is an utter nightmare trying to do the website when I never know when the whole thing is going to just give up the ghost!.

In haste...before the next crash ....thank you very much

Mary x

Originally from: chris stockdale
                        
Help needed; can anyone tell me the date that Margaret Beckett said
in the House of Commons, that following the 3 inquiries ... 'we would be told exactly what we need to be told' ? I think it was about the day before the 'Wolverhampton' Meeting, because it was on the radio as Greg gave me a lift up there. What date was that?

Secondly, does anyone know offhand the date that Fred Brown gave evidence to the EU inquiry?
 Thanks, Chris.
                        

Originally from: chris stockdale
                        
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Originally from: Burkie
                        
Dear Chris: I don't believe you were on the other FMD original website last year. However, I had done my share of digging at the time...and learned that meetings were held in Italy, in May, 2000, in which one of Pirbright's researchers informed and reported changes taking place in the make-up of the Panasian Type O virus. There was also a report about the escape of virus from a Russian laboratory. These were virtually unre-ported by our media and yours, too. The Pirbright scientist that made those reports was Nick J. Knowles.....and NEVER have we ever heard anymore from him, throughout your entire outbreak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I have NEVER UNDERSTOOD why someone NEVER interviewed Dr. Knowles....and I sure as heck brought his name and the information up for everyone to have a look at.)

Apparently, the Powers-to-be recognized some things were happening....then came late August, 2000, in Argentina....and the rush to do some substantial CYA'ing began. The same scientist from Pirbright made a joint report on these potential virus changes with the head of Plum Islands viral research department at the U.S. Animal Health conference in October.

At the same time this report was made, our U.S.D.A. had quietly sent veterinarians to Argentina to assist with their (unreported) outbreak in the fall of 2000. It was not until March 16, 2001, that the Argentines admitted they had a major FMD outbreak on their hands....nearly a month after the first FMD was found in the U.K. I sent reports of these reports to Jane, Susan, and Mary Critchley. They all reported them.

In the fall of 2000, after our U.S.D.A vets reported the Argentine situation to their superiors here, began a rush to construct and adopt a new Bio-Security Plan here in the States.

They knew it was bad and the potentials to occur here were high.

The point I am trying to make is this: Either a total lack of communication was happening within the veterinary and virological circles....keeping this information "under their thumbs"....or it was made known within the Inner Sanctums of Governments to keep the Public unaware of what was actually happening. There was too much money at stake and they needed to "buy" time to get things in place.

Don't forget, there were other outbreaks reported, too....including Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Once reported, you never heard anymore about it.

I still maintain, the OIE and Pirbright have just about flunked their jobs for reporting and informing the Public of these outbreaks....and they sure weren't honest with us as to how each country underwent it's methods of control.

Just look up some info about the following:

SENASA
SENACSA
PANAFTOSA
AFTOSA
COSALFA
for a start. Be ready to read Spanish....or do a Google translation.

Hope this helps you a little bit.

All the best,

Burkie in Kansas