FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
OUTBREAK IN BRITAIN BROUGHT BY MIGRANT BIRDS. Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright LONDON, November 12. <* Evidence indicates that foot-and-mouth disease was imported into Britain by migrant birds,” said Mr W. S. Morrison, Minister for Agriculture, in the House of Commons. He added that the possibility of the transportation of the disease by mud brought into the country on the wheels and chassis of motor cars had not been overlooked, but the nature of tho present outbreak showed that it was a field infection, not a roads infection. The Government intended to continue the policy of slaughtering, with compensation.
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Evening Star, Issue 22805, 13 November 1937, Page 15
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