Simulation of FMD bioterrorist attack

Originally from: Mike
                        
A hypothetical epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), maliciously started, was the subject for the second U.S. Defense Department simulation exercise on February 11, 2003.

A report on this, plus a review of last week's superb BBC Radio Interview of Nicola Morris on the subject of the contiguous cull is available at:

http://www.aasv.org/news/story.php?id=466

Also, the U.S. Army manual on protection against bioterrorist biological weapons is now available on CD, see

http://www.lovehealth.org/info/biowarfare.htm

Mike
                        

Originally from: Bill
                        
I'm sure if you made Osama Bin Laden head of operations at Pirbright he wouldn't be able to cause more devastation than the present numbskulls.

Bill.

Originally from: Burkie
                        
Bill: I have to agree with you completely. We've all been whipped into some kind of Killing Field Frenzy.....at least that attempt has been made by your own Brit Scientists and Vets....notwithstanding the Fact that some of them haven't joined the Frenzy Club.

I think it will all go down in history as one of the most atrociuous acts of mankind upon animals and their caretakers....something akin to the Holocaust.

It will be our sons and daughters and grand-children that hold this group of people with the same disdain I hold for them now and did two years ago....which will go with me to my grave and is included in my will.

It was atrocious. The Cull was heinous and without justifiable cause. There were alternatives that could have been used.

Britain is stained, forever, in history of animal husbandry.

And it was criminal in its implementation.

Burkie in Kansas