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...Sheep Department of Agriculture officials seized flocks of sheep from two Vermont farmers to test for a version of bse, or "mad cow" disease. The sheep, some of which were imported from Belgium and the Netherlands in 1996, tested positive in July for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (tse), a class of neurological illness that includes scrapie and bse. Officials said they would take the sheep to Iowa to be tested and killed...
...Department of Agriculture is not taking any chances that Europe's mad-cow disease will get a hoofhold here. This week the USDA will destroy 360 Vermont sheep, even though the agency does not know for sure that the animals have the disease--and may not know for two years. The sheep were imported from Europe in 1996. In 1998 the USDA placed them in quarantine after learning they may have consumed contaminated feed. Last July four of the animals developed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow. Within days, the USDA issued an emergency order...
TIME.com: Having slaughtered almost half a million sheep and cattle and preparing to slaughter a further 700,000, the British government appears to have suddenly revived the option of mass vaccination of animals against foot-and-mouth. Are they conceding that their handling of the crisis has been inept...
...J.F.O. McAllister: Almost by definition, any change of policy is a concession of ineptitude. Today during prime minister's question time in Parliament, Tony Blair conceded that this thing was far bigger than anyone had anticipated, and that there had been a lot more movement of cattle and sheep than previously suspected during the period when the disease had been incubating. He was saying that no matter what the government had done, nobody had any idea of how widespread the outbreak would become. But, of course, at the beginning of the crisis he had been saying the government...
...Europe is not panicked, but it is worried. Even in Britain, the epicenter of the foot-and-mouth disaster, farm communities may be devastated, but through last week they were suffering in resignation. Denise Walton, who with her husband Chris raises 250 head of beef cattle and 450 sheep in Berwickshire, near the Scottish border, talks sadly about being "at war with a silent enemy, never knowing where it is, and being forced to stay isolated on our farms." Prince Charles gave $720,000 last week to help those hit the hardest; he said he feared a harvest of suicides...