Foot and mouth disease cost the UK more than 8 billion pounds

Lead: London, June 21 (Reuters) - foot and mouth disease last year caused more than 8 billion pounds of damage to the country, the National Audit Office (NAO) said on Friday In dealing with the crisis, millions of livestock were slaughtered and a wide range of rural areas were closed Nao said it was unrealistic to ask the government to plan for the actual loss of the crisis John bourn, head of Nao, said that while it is known that the government has made a transitional plan, it is necessary to make emergency measures for contingency plans John bourn, head of Nao, said that effective and in-depth study of FMD was necessary Measures must be found that cost the least and can control the crisis He said the Ministry of agriculture must understand the severity of the local disease and take urgent measures to control the risk most effectively Lack of vision: over £ 3 billion in public sector losses and over £ 5 billion in private sector losses Edward Leigh, chairman of the house public affairs committee, said the government's plan was self-contained and short of vision The government's emergency plan is totally unimaginative The NAO reported that farmers' livestock had been slaughtered and received £ 1.3 billion in compensation 2030 cases of FMD were identified The number of cases puts the compensation plan under great pressure, which makes the cost higher than the original assumption The British government had assumed that no more than 10 farms would be infected each time it dealt with an FMD emergency But when FMD was first diagnosed, at least 57 farms were infected It's no surprise, Leigh said, that when the government tried to find out the origin of FMD, there was no clue at all The cost of dealing with foot-and-mouth disease soon exceeded the budget, and the government had to pay a lot of money to fight the disease quickly Contractors put the government in a dilemma, and some people take advantage of this opportunity to make money, and these costs need to be borne by taxpayers (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: