In the light of the recent bio-security questions about the Foot and Mouth outbreak, at Pirbright, it may not be a comfort to readers to know that, apart from FMD virus, the IAH facility researches several animal diseases, 'exotic' to the UK:

Lumpy Skin Disease and Rinderpest for cattle

African Horse Sickness and Equine Encephalosis for horses

African Swine Fever and Swine Vesicular Disease for pigs

Blue Tongue, Peste des petits Ruminants and Sheep Pox for sheep

and

Goat Pox for goats.

Let's hope they can keep the lid on that bunch of goodies ........

Bio-security risk?

Meanwhile, it does not encourage me to learn that the carcases of the slaughtered cattle are being shipped from Surrey to Frome in Somerset, for incineration. Please give those trucks a wide berth, as they travel their way.