WHY Foot-and-Mouth Disease Plagues Britain - David R Bedford & Colin D Sutcliffe - January 1968

David R Bedford & Colin D Sutcliffe

Britain has suffered the worst epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease in its history. England's Financial Times describes it as "the worst disaster of any kind to have befallen the farming community in living memory," "It's just like the war," commented one farmer recently on a TV programme. "We don't know what is going to happen next." Living in a State of Siege Many hundreds of farmers and their families are living today in a state of siege, hoping to stop the spread of the dreaded disease to their animals. Others, because the disease has already been confirmed on their farms, live in complete isolation. All deliveries are left at the farm entrance. No one on these farms is allowed out, no outsider in. Their only contact with the outside world is by telephone. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library