Actually,It is a bit more worrying as they have no idea 1) how it is spread, 2) how to cure it, 3) how to contain it.
There's quite a lot of evidence that it is carried by midges, but there's an unexplained reservoir effect, whereby uninfected midges arrive in an uninfected area, acquire the disease and start spreading it.
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Mon 24 Sep 2007, 9:12,
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There's quite a lot of evidence that it is carried by midges, but there's an unexplained reservoir effect, whereby uninfected midges arrive in an uninfected area, acquire the disease and start spreading it.
It's nothing new, it's been around since the 18th century,We actually know it very well, it's seasonal in many warmer climes, and it's non harmful to humans, it's just new to here and the tabloids and we'll have to start inocculating our livestock like everyone else does.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetongue_disease
Or alternatively run around like headless chickens and burn them like witches. We'll probably go for the latter option under media pressure, we usually do.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetongue_disease
Or alternatively run around like headless chickens and burn them like witches. We'll probably go for the latter option under media pressure, we usually do.
..wil,
Mon 24 Sep 2007, 9:33,
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I know,it's a personal bugbear of mine just how much we're run by them, and how easily the general public and even the BBC join in blindly with the latest scary hysteria made to keep us all frightened and worried and buying newspapers.
It'll be gone in about a month when the weather gets cold and we'll have made our own vaccine supplies come next summer. No need to panic.
*edit* plus it's flu like with conjuctivitus and very low deaths. Wow, run, that sheep looks tired and sleepy eyed, eeeeeeeeek!!
(It'll be gone in about a month when the weather gets cold and we'll have made our own vaccine supplies come next summer. No need to panic.
*edit* plus it's flu like with conjuctivitus and very low deaths. Wow, run, that sheep looks tired and sleepy eyed, eeeeeeeeek!!
..wil,
Mon 24 Sep 2007, 9:52,
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