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Foot and Mouth clarification
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I am note sure whether you have postged this on the right sight? However the thousands of animals slaughtered in this country was due to Foot and Mouth Disease, as ansteyg has no rightly pointed out.
Cattle have certainly been slaughtered due to vCJD, but not on the massive scale caused by Foot and Mouth.
Mad cow disease is an example of what my age group called slow virus diseases. The infectious agents are proteins without DNA as far as anyone can see. If you google Prusiner (the fella who go the Nobel prize for ebing right about this condition) you should find out more than enough about it.
Foot and Mouth disease is a straightforward disease -?paramyxovirus perhaps? Infection in man has been described but very rarely. There is a case report in the British medical journal during the outbreak before last 1968 which they proved by serology. And if anyone has a long memory they will remember an episode of Dr Finlay's casebook on this very subject.
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