DISEASE BY AIR?
Foot-and-Mouth Contagion Brought by Birds? BRITISH INVESTIGATIONS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. "Evidence indicates that foot-and-inouth disease now raging in lo counties has been imported to Britain by migrant birds," said Mr. W. S. Morrison, Minister of Agriculture, in the House of Commons. Mr. Morrison added that the possibility of transportation of the disease l»y mud brought into the country on the wheel's and chassis of motor cars had not been overlooked, but the nature [>f the present outbreak showed that it was ft;-]d infection, not ro:*d i" ti. The (iovernniciit intcndi-l to ; ;iL'.nue its policy of slaughtering affected cattle, with compensation to farmers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 7
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108DISEASE BY AIR? Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 7
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