3/15 If Foot-and-Mouth disease doesn't affect human being, what's bad about
eating meat from livestocks that are infected with the disease? I mean
why is the outbreak as big of a deal as mad-cow disease?
\_ meat is murder! or something and stuff...
\_ anything done in Europe is defined to be more advanced than what
happens in the US. This must be their way of making a new flavor
of meat or something.
\_ Probably just bad for certain industries...on the news, they say
the disease makes cows not want to eat
as much, hence less milk and less bulky meat...
\_ You mean foot-and-mouth.. btw, what's the difference between
foot-and-mouth and hoof-and-mouth?
\_ Ooops. Corrected now.
\_ According to /csua/bin/webster, foot-and-mouth and
hoof-and-mouth are the same disease.
\_ isn't trench-mouth or whatever from WWI the same thing in humans?
\_ The real answer to your question is that it kills the animals. In
humans, it is annoying but not fatal. And no, you can't drag the
diseased carcasses from the fields where they dropped to the
slaughter house.
\_ What effects does eating foot-and-mouth-diseased meat have
on humans? (just out of morbid curiosity) -!original poster
\_ Fever and a low chance of some blisters/sores for a few
days.
\_ The big problem is more economic. The affected animals won't
eat because of painful mouth sores and lose weight to the point
where they are unsellable. Also, the disease is highly contagious,
and is transmitted through the air, liquid, food, soil, your shoes,
just about anything, and can survive for extended periods outside
of a host. So it has profound effects on trade, commerce, even
tourism and travel.
\_ If it can be transmitted in so many ways, how have they been
keeping it under control all these decades until now?
\_ Quarantine used to be the solution, but that isn't feasible
with the large herds of today. Thus the slaughtering and
burning of carcasses. Hoof-and-mouth for cloven foot animals
would be equal to a deadly form of the common cold for humans.
Even if the animals survive one bout, a mutated version may
come back and you lose more animals, and then it may mutate
again and so on. You need to break the cycle or else.
\_ Can you reference this statement? In my research,
I have not come across this "mutate again ..."
theory before. Thanks. -ausman |