THE LIVE STOCK EMBARGO
TO THE EDITOR , / Sir,—ln the year 1932-33 the killing and burning (all diseased animals must be burned) of stock suffering from foot-and-mouth disease amounted to 18,000 in Germany, 10,000 in Belgium, 12.000 in France, and 26,000 in Great Britain. One should not forget that Loftier, the discoverer of the virus of' foot-and-mouth disease, .in 1892 said he'had known cases where the virus had been excreted seven months after recovery. Waldmann, experimenting with 500 recovered cattle, showed that virus was present in six of them, at varying intervals from six to 246 days after infection, and yet we are asked to believe this is only a cold? The Island of Jersey, which has the best cattle of that breed in the world, has a cattle population of 11,000, and, has had in force an embargo on the importation of cattle since 1783—that is, for 152 years. If there as one chance in a million of our getting foot-and-mouth disease into thig country and ruining everyone, we have no moral right to take that chance. —I am, etc., Haldane Cook. Auckland.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22498, 16 February 1935, Page 21
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