Garbage a cause?
Garbage fed to the pigs, which might have contained diseased meat from foreign ships berthed at Timaru, might have been the cause of the disease outbreak, according to a former advisory officer to the Pork Industry Council. Mr L. D. Eddy said from Temuka yesterday that if the disease was foot-and-mouth it could cause “terrific losses.” “If there was a bit of diseased meat from a sandwich or something fed to the pigs, that could have caused the outbreak,” Mr Eddy said.
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Press, 13 February 1981, Page 3
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