Foot and mouth disease may happen again in Britain

Lead: London, June 20 (Reuters) - on Thursday, the UK issued another red alert The Ministry of Agriculture said a sick pig was found in the middle of the UK According to its symptoms, it may have foot-and-mouth disease or swine blister disease Veterinarians found the pig at a slaughterhouse in congerstone, Leicestershire It is difficult to distinguish foot-and-mouth disease from vesicular disease At present, livestock movement has been banned within 5 miles (8 kilometers) around the slaughterhouse Swine vesicular disease is a kind of highly infectious viral swine disease, which is characterized by blisters on the foot, lower part of the body and mouth The problem pig, from one of 34 farms in Eastern Yorkshire, has been slaughtered and sampled for testing at the animal health laboratory in purbright, Surrey, the Department of environmental food and Rural Affairs said in a statement Thursday Preliminary results will be available on Friday, but it will take 96 hours to get the final results, the statement said Last year's FMD pandemic caused hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses to the UK Since the last FMD case was confirmed in September 2001, tests for all suspected cases have been negative, Defra said in a statement A spokesman for the National Farmers Union (NFU) said that although the development of things was a bit worrying, after all, it has not been confirmed "Since the end of the last FMD epidemic, we have encountered such a panic for the third time We must pass this test, so that every Defra can be satisfied." She said The UK just got clearance in January (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: