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	2001 UK foot and mouth crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the time the disease was halted by October 2001, the crisis was estimated to have cost Britain £8bn ($15bn), and had dominated much of the 2001 UK media coverage prior to 11th September.
		By the middle of spring 2001, several cases of foot and mouth were reported in Ireland and mainland Europe, following unknowing transportation of infected animals from the UK.
		The Republic of Ireland suffered one case in a flock of sheep in Jenkinstown in County Louth in March 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2001_UK_foot_and_mouth_crisis (1708 words)

	2001 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, 2001 is also the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
		July 19 - UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer, sentenced to four years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
		October 9 - The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/2001 (3465 words)

	ooBdoo
		By traditional interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, 2001 is also the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
		February 20 - The 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis begins.
		July 19 - UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer, is sentenced to 4 years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=2001 (4566 words)

	CNN.com - Foot-and-mouth crisis spreads - February 28, 2001
		The European Union has prolonged a ban on the export of live animals from the UK while German officials have extended their quarantine around a farm where sheep were found which may have come into contact with the disease.
		UK Agriculture Minister Nick Brown has been in Brussels, reassuring his EU partners that all was being done to prevent the virus spreading.
		Already in the UK, children in some rural areas are being kept away from school for fear of spreading the virus and farms have been cordoned off.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/UK/02/28/disease.spread/index.html (799 words)

	The Truth About Foot and Mouth Disease
		Foot and Mouth is being used as the HIV of the animal world and hour after hour the BBC and other ignorant UK broadcasters are bombarding the public with fear stories about a "catastrophe" and access to the countryside and at least many sacred sites is banned.
		Continued promotion of the slaughter policy by the UK authorities as the most effective way of dealing with foot and mouth, eventually persuaded the continent and then the rest of the world to follow suit.
		Because of the UK's continued and, as we shall see, unfounded insistence that FMD is highly infectious, and must be eradicated at all costs, one whiff on the global food markets that UK herds have FMD leads quite naturally to today's totally disproportionate scenes.
	www.pigs4ever.com /news/foot_and_mouth.htm (3017 words)

	Environment News Service: Human May Have Contracted Foot And Mouth in UK
		Also called hoof and mouth disease, foot and mouth is caused by a virus affecting cloven hoofed animals, such as cows, pigs, sheep, goats and deer.
		The disease is characterized by blisters in the mouth and on the feet.
		The UK government has been battling to allay fears that its methods of disposing of animals culled to prevent the spread of the disease are potentially dangerous.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/apr2001/2001-04-24-10.asp (1027 words)

	Environment News Service: UK's Foot and Mouth Cull Raises Toxic Dilemma
		LONDON, United Kingdom, April 19, 2001 (ENS) - The foot and mouth outbreak is under control, according to the United Kingdom government's chief scientist, but the logistical challenge of quickly disposing of more than a million slaughtered animals is raising new fears over dioxins and groundwater contamination.
		In the UK, more than 80 people have died or are suffering from Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, the result of a BSE epidemic discovered in UK cattle in the 1980s.
		In Cumbria, where the largest number of confirmed foot and mouth cases are concentrated, there are about 140 abstractions for public water supply and/or food or drink processing.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/apr2001/2001-04-19-12.asp (1028 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Britain in foot and mouth crisis
		BRITISH food exports worth up to £9 billion a year were halted by the European Commission last night after the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the country for 20 years.
		The ban was a shattering blow to the farming and food industry so soon after the BSE crisis that ruined hundreds of farmers.
		The British pigs were hit by a pan-Asiatic strain of foot and mouth virus, Type O - different from the strain which affected Greece but almost the same as the one that caused a major outbreak in South Africa last year.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/22/nfnm22.xml (832 words)

	Newsroom \| Releases/Statements \| Archive \| 2001 \| 'Foot And Mouth Crisis - SEPA Defers Charges To Farmers'
		Foot and Mouth Crisis: SEPA defers charges to farmers
		The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) today announced that in light of the current national foot and mouth disease crisis, it is deferring the issue of invoices to farmers under its groundwater charging scheme.
		If and when farmers whose stock is unaffected by Foot and Mouth disease need to use chemicals like sheep dips, invoices will be issued.
	www.sepa.org.uk /news/releases/2001/sepapr1401.html (248 words)

	Foot and Mouth crisis UK 2001: Archive 7
		The 2000th UK outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the current epidemic was confirmed on September 3rd on a sheep farm in East Cumbria
		Our UK customers, under pressure of cash-flow problems and trading uncertainties, reduced their orders by 90% over the first 4 months of the foot and mouth crisis.
		New outbreak of foot and mouth in Cumbria:; BBC
	www.sunflower-health.com /fmd220803/diseases/FMD/fmdoutbreaks7.htm (2050 words)

	2001 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		February 18 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt is killed instantly in a crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500 while blocking for his DEI cars driven by his son, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
		December 3 - Officials announce that one of the Taliban prisoners captured after the prison uprising at Mazar-e Sharif is John Walker Lindh, an American citizen.
		In the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, the main characters Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Soryu,Toji Suzuhara and most of their classmates are born.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/2001 (4710 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Special report: foot and mouth disease
		February 2: Britain is still not prepared for any new foot and mouth epidemic, four years after the disaster that led to a cull of 6m animals, the National Audit Office reveals today.
		February 16: The Prince of Wales orchestrated a campaign against the government's policy of slaughtering millions of farm animals during the foot and mouth epidemic, according to the outgoing president of the National Farmers' Union.
		February 20: At the height of foot and mouth last year, Guardian Unlimited conducted a series of interviews with people whose lives and livelihoods were directly affected.
	www.guardian.co.uk /footandmouth (855 words)

	UK Foot And Mouth 'Crisis' - The Untold Story
		Credence Publications contacted her as a result of her recent UK Times article (1) which began thus: "Foot and mouth is as serious to animals as a bad cold is to human beings.
		The foot and mouth crisis appears in danger of racing out of control, despite assurances that the virus had been contained.
		Britain's foot and mouth crisis has spread far further than originally though and is moving rapidly from sheep to cattle..
	www.rense.com /general9/ftd.htm (2960 words)

	UK general election, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The United Kingdom general election of 7th June 2001 was dubbed as "the quiet landslide" the media.
		Outside Northern Ireland (which mostly has different parties and different electoral landscape from the rest of UK although a few UK-wide parties stand minimal success) 620 out of 641 seats with the same party as they had in 1997.
		The general election was originally scheduled for May. However in an effort to eradicate outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease the Prime Minister made the decision postpone until June a risky move to as it gave the impression the country in a state of crisis.
	www.freeglossary.com /UK_general_election,_2001 (412 words)

	Foot-and-mouth disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While currently (July 2001) some countries, including Australia, Canada, and the United States have been free of FMD for some time, eradicated from the U.S. in 1929, its wide host range and rapid spread represent cause for international concern.
		Foot-and-mouth disease is characterized by high fever that declines rapidly after two or three days; blisters inside the mouth that lead to excessive secretion of stringy or foamy saliva and to drooling; and blisters on the feet that may rupture and cause lameness.
		There is another viral disease with similar symptoms, commonly referred to as “hand, foot, and mouth disease,” that occurs more frequently in humans, especially in young children; this disease is caused by a different virus of the family Picornaviridae, namely, an Enterovirus called Coxsackie A.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foot-and-mouth_disease (1283 words)

	Foot and Mouth Disease in Cumbria
		Foot an Mouth pyre at a farm in Kirkbride.
		From February 2001 through to September 2001 hundreds of farms throughout Cumbria were struck with foot and mouth disease.
		This powerful book on the foot and mouth crisis is by well-known Lake District livestock auctioneer Adam Day, who was as closely involved with the outbreak as anybody working in the county at the time and whose anger at how it was handled comes through on every page.
	www.visitcumbria.com /footandmouth.htm (1018 words)

	Crufts 2001 in the light of the Foot and Mouth Crisis#Feb 2001
		Crufts 2001 in the light of the Foot and Mouth Crisis#Feb 2001
		Any dogs in an area infected with foot and mouth disease must be kept under control by their owners.
		If you are in an area declared to be infected with foot and mouth disease you must not let your dog run free; if you do, it may be seized by the local authority or the police and treated as a stray.
	www.pedigreedogs.co.uk /k9bytes/foot_and_mouth.htm (430 words)

	Foot & Mouth Crisis: To Be Killed for Having Flu Is As Sick As It Gets
		Foot and mouth is not a fatal disease.
		When government ministers, farmers and vets prefer to shoot thousands of animals rather than wait a few weeks for them to recover from an illness that does not pose a threat to human health, it is clear that something has gone hideously wrong with our relationship to the non-human world.
		One of the effects of the crisis has been to make me think about returning to a vegetarian diet, not out of concern for my own health but because of the horrors that modern farming imposes on animals, and I doubt whether I am alone in this.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0304-03.htm (914 words)

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		URUGUAY FINDS FOOT AND MOUTH, SUSPENDS EXPORTS April 25, 2001 Reuters Anahi Rama BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Uruguay was cited as detecting an outbreak of foot and mouth cattle disease near its shared border with affected Argentina Tuesday, and suspended all meat exports -- its prized health status now in jeopardy.
		Investigators into his case were cited as thinking the illegal distribution of tainted feed would explain the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) early this year of a cow born after animal feed ingredient laws were tightened in 1996.
		The story goes on to say that UK government estimates that fires during the first six weeks of the foot-and-mouth crisis have released 63g of dioxins into the atmosphere.
	archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca /animalnet/2001/4-2001/an-04-25-01-02.txt (1830 words)

	Hopes for end to foot and mouth crisis - 12 October 2001 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fears of deliberate spread of foot and mouth disease
		There have been no cases of foot and mouth disease in the UK for 12 days - the first substantial period of time without new outbreaks since the start of the devastating epidemic in February.
		David King, the UK government's chief scientific advisor, says that he is optimistic that the foot and mouth epidemic is under control.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn1426 (357 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Foot and mouth
		Foot and mouth rules set to be eased
		A Northumberland farmer is found guilty of animal cruelty and failing to tell officials of a foot-and-mouth outbreak among his pigs.
		Cattle farmer John Bennett remembers the terror he felt as the foot-and-mouth crisis of 1967 took hold across Britain.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/uk/2001/foot_and_mouth/default.stm (117 words)

	Was there a better way of dealing with the crisis?'
		Still mourning the loss of their stock and disdainful of the media branding of them as "ghost sheep" farmers, some are still fighting for compensation - others have already moved on.
		Our children were aware of the impact the foot-and-mouth crisis had on Gr inne and me. D nal worked quite a bit on the farm and took an interest in the purebred sheep on the hills.
		When the army moved out on to the mountain to shoot wild goats (they had to kill all cloven-hoofed animals), they inadvertently killed 20 sheep, and some of them were mine.
	www.organicconsumers.org /madcow/crisis112001.cfm (947 words)

	Foot-and-Mouth Disease: A Virus With Global Reach > The Good News : May/June 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Foot-and-mouth disease, also called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a contagious fever-inducing disorder especially of cloven-footed animals marked by blisters in the mouth, about the hooves and on the udder and teats.
		Its arrival in the UK belies the belief that foot-and-mouth had been eradicated in Western Europe" (Feb. 25).
		Most of the book of Deuteronomy is a series of discourses by Moses directed initially to the Israelites of old, but it also applies to the ages that would follow-especially to events that would mark what the Bible calls the time of the end.
	www.gnmagazine.org /issues/gn34/footmouth.htm (1534 words)

	Spiritual meaning of the current Foot and Mouth crisis in the UK 2001
		I very strongly feel, that there is an important spiritual aspect behind the current Foot and Mouth disease, and that we have to stop this unnecessary mass killing of animals.
		I reply I don't see it as a crisis rather I feel honor and Deep Gratitude to the animals I believe are offering us a sacred gift.
		29 March 2001 Lesley A. I think the animals are also telling us that as we are connected to them and to the earth.
	www.cam.net.uk /home/nimmann/spirit/footandmouth.htm (1394 words)

	Foot and Mouth Disease: A Plague Upon Depravity: An Article from Shooting Ourselved in the Foot: The Sanitizing of ...
		The highly contagious Foot and Mouth Disease (sometimes called Hoof and Mouth Disease) causes blisters to form on the mouths and hooves of cloven hoofed animals such as pigs, sheep, and cattle (bovine), including dairy cows.
		"At the moment the UK is paralysed by the dreadful plague of Foot-and-Mouth sickness - which is particularly dreadful, not so much for the animals themselves, apparently, but because the reaction to it is to slaughter every single farm animal for miles around.
		And while we're talking about the love of money driving this plague, we should consider that Foot and Mouth Disease rarely affects humans and is seldom fatal to animals.
	www.all-creatures.org /sof/plague-footmouth.html (828 words)

	The Devon Foot & Mouth Inquiry 2001
		Crisis and Opportunity Devon Foot and Mouth Inquiry 2001
		APPENDIX 4 - Chronology of Devon County Council Response to the Crisis
		APPENDIX 5 - Overview of Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease
	www.devon.gov.uk /fminquiry/finalreport (106 words)

	03/25/01 -- UK steps up foot-and-mouth cull, crisis mounts
		The crisis has closed much of the countryside, crippled the farming community and brought the tourism industry to its knees.
		A new sense of urgency in fighting the highly contagious disease has gripped British leaders since scientific advisers said the epidemic could spread with dramatic speed and half the country's livestock might have to be slaughtered.
		Blair has long penciled in May 3 for a national poll, allowing him to cash in on a gaping opinion poll lead and an economy boasting the lowest unemployment in a generation.
	forests.org /archive/europe/ukstfoot.htm (843 words)

	UK Foot-and-Mouth Disease Crisis 2001 - Effect on United Kingdom
		"Following Orders" is the shocking inside story about the U.K. pig disease epidemic of classical swine fever in 2000 and the epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease in UK in 2001
		A dramatised story told by a vet in the UK Government Veterinary service of true-life emotional trauma in rural communities resulting from disease control measures.
		Photographer, Ian Geering was so moved by the impact of the U.K. foot and mouth epidemic on rural communities that he travelled the length and breadth of the country recording the devastated countryside with his camera.
	members.farmline.com /stress/aftermath.htm (651 words)

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