Foot and Mouth clarification

[NZimardo]

Pardon me, but I think you should inform your readers that the reason that thousands of cattle were destroyed was attributed to the deadly vCJD epidemic, not "foot and mouth disease".  vCJD was borne of BSE, more commonly known as "Mad Cow Disease".  It might be referred to as the "human form of vCJD".  I think you may want to correct yourself, if you say that "foot and mouth" is not a deadly disorder.  I have been reading "The Pathological Protein" by Philip Yam, and I suggest you educate yourself as well if you haven't already.

[NZimardo]

This previous post was in reference to a lengthy article on this server on "foot and mouth disease".  I am making a correction to one of my sentences.  I stated "It might be referrred to as the human form of vCJD".  Actually I meant to say there "It might be referred to as the human form of Mad Cow Disease".  Thank you.

[LeMarchand]

This might be more relevant if you provided a link...

[FP]

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.

[FP]

Error:  right site

[Peter Pedant]

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.

[ezapf]

I like to admit when I was wrong.

I thought I might understand the question if I read the answers.

I was wrong.