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Pig Journal Volume: 49
Publication date: June 2002

General Section

LESSONS LEARNT FROM RECENT FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (FMD) AND HOG CHOLERA OUTBREAKS IN THE UK
by S.H. Done, A.C.J. Gresham, H. Morris, D. Paton, J.D. Mackinnon and P. Kitching

Abstract
One of the authors was personally involved at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's (MAFF, defunct) Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Control Centre in London during the recent epidemic. In this paper, he draws on his considerable experiences there to analyse the reasons for the epidemic, its causes and the manifold problems encountered in trying to stem the disease spread. He is able to draw too on his experiences in the Classical Swine Fever (CSF) outbreaks of the previous year. The paper highlights, in a terse and succinct way, the strengths and weaknesses of both control policies; the deficiencies in management in the way these disease situations were handled and, in particular, the lessons that should have been learned, but were not, from the epidemics of the past. In all, it constitutes a salutary warning to both the politicians and their professional and, all too often, non-professional advisers for the future.

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