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Government -
Our
FMD Slaughter record
2007
On the 3rd August 2007 a suspected case
of FMD was found on a farm in Surrey.
We are trying to keep a record of the
animals slaughtered under the disease control policy for FMD in 2007.
The figures published in bold are taken from
the OIE
data base and their received updates from DEFRA.
The date animals were culled
appears in the date column. Those in the
'FMD' column were found on test to be infected with FMD and those in the
'Clear' column were not infected with FMD.
Nevertheless,
when we hear a slaughter is taking place we do list it, and at present
have to wait for the details of the location and the numbers and
species killed. (infected or clear of infection) to be reported.
As a
result details of some incidents as shown on the BBC Map of the zones at
23/09/07 are missing.
Names of farms are not always clear from the OIE
reports
nor are the figures for infected/uninfected in each species published.
Therefore from news reports we fear more farms/animals have been
slaughtered on suspicion than are listed below. From the figures we
do have to date
(25/09/07) it seems 1,744 animals have been slaughtered among them only
175 were infected with FMD.
Now, on 5th November, we have answers to
Parliamentary Questions here
revealing that 2,160 have been slaughtered and only as far as we can
tell 175 were infected.
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