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warmwell3: UK - 88 holdings last Defra update: evening Feb 29
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Monday, 3 March 2008. UK - 88 holdings last Defra update: evening Feb 29. March 3 2008 "It has now emerged that maternal transmission is another possible means.". Michelle Gildernew, the Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister is quoted on www.farminglife.com. March 3 2008 With farmers and vets preparing to vaccinate, Jack Davies and Alistair Driver look at the key questions surrounding vaccination. Northern Ireland's Belfast Telegraph, in its article, Imports row over disease outbreak. Says that Assembly ...
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warmwell3: October 2007
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007. October 10 2007 Unbelievable. Commenting on the announcement that the PZ for Bluetongue has indeed been expanded, deputy chief veterinary officer Fred Landeg, quoted in Farmers Weekly. Will Mr Landeg be ordering men in white suits to place sticky nets. Around the perimeter of the new zone? Unless one plans to concrete the whole country these isolated measures won't have any influence on vector numbers.". Writes Sabine Zentis from the heart of midge infested Germany. The use of...
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warmwell3: December 2007
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Friday, 21 December 2007. The cold winds do blow and we shall have snow .and the Bluetongue midges - according to DEFRA decree today - will bite no more for a while. At least, this is what we and the midges have been told and the farmers, desperate to do some moving of stock at last, are not going to argue. But what about the future of those sheep still abiding in the fields? How are they to be kept from succumbing to the Bluetongue infection-carrying culicoides of next Spring? And for the country? If yo...
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warmwell3: Latest Bluetongue posts at warmwell.com
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Monday, 25 February 2008. Latest Bluetongue posts at warmwell.com. February 25 2008 ".unfounded. Suspicion that somehow vaccination allows animals to be infectious whilst. Concealing signs of clinical disease.". On Friday, Dr Watkins spoke, with all the well founded frustration of the expert virologist, of "the redundant rule" that. Vaccination is not allowed in the surveillance zone nor outside the surveillance zone in uninfected areas. Why should we be. Establishing itself in new areas? February 24/25 ...
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warmwell3: Latest Posts on warmwell.com Bluetongue page
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Friday, 22 February 2008. Latest Posts on warmwell.com Bluetongue page. February 22 2008 Bluetongue risk starts "in April" says DEFRA. February 22 2008 Tests are now being carried out on the foetuses of culled animals to check for cow to calf transmission across the placenta. Reports on the apparent development in Northern Ireland. See also our report yesterday below. And informed comment in the most recent communication to warmwell from Dr Ruth Watkins. Dr Ruth Watkins, the virologist and farmer, has ev...
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warmwell3: March 2008
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Monday, 3 March 2008. UK - 88 holdings last Defra update: evening Feb 29. March 3 2008 "It has now emerged that maternal transmission is another possible means.". Michelle Gildernew, the Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister is quoted on www.farminglife.com. March 3 2008 With farmers and vets preparing to vaccinate, Jack Davies and Alistair Driver look at the key questions surrounding vaccination. Northern Ireland's Belfast Telegraph, in its article, Imports row over disease outbreak. Says that Assembly ...
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Warmwell: No one will enter my farm to kill my animals...
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Thursday, 8 November 2007. No one will enter my farm to kill my animals. Brave, admirable, doomed words. If the veterinary service does not show me in writing whose animals actually have this disease, no one will enter my farm to kill my animals,”. Farmers in Cyprus are tearful, angry and disbelieving of the nightmare into which they have been plunged. Brussels is telling them to kill their animals - they want to know which ones for why should they kill healthy animals? For better or worse, we are in the...
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Warmwell: "It seems that we are obliged to kill ..."
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Tuesday, 6 November 2007. It seems that we are obliged to kill .". The Cypriot Agriculture Minister, Fotis Fotiou, showed in a radio statement his shock at the measures insisted upon by the EU:. It seems that we are obliged to kill livestock from the three remaining farms as well, which represents around 1,500 animals. Nobody can rule out the culling of many more animals if other test results come back from London indicating the disease has spread.". I challenge anyone to listen to the BBC's On Your Farm.
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warmwell2: Risk
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Sunday, 7 October 2007. Oct 8 2007 Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and West Sussex may be freed from the high risk zone. There were hopes this week that Defra would announce relaxations to foot-and-mouth restrictions and remove a number of counties from the high risk zone. A case for the removal of counties like Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and West Sussex from the zone. And paragraph 31 expresses evident irritation at the "intractable" behaviour of some of the cattle making su...
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Warmwell: Scotland the brave
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Saturday, 3 November 2007. The virus-carrying midges of Northern Europe, deterred and terrified by brave words from the Scots farming union bosses, are going to make a U turn at Hadrian's Wall. Scotland is a country where midges are virtually unknown. The SBCA could not be party to a policy which could expose the Scottish livestock industry to this most dreadful disease.". To extend the protection zone to cover the whole of Great Britain - or at least. Actually this is likely to happen the other way roun...
