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To: Dealer who wrote (4354)	9/28/2000 8:03:59 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

So much for houses made of straw Sandwich May Be Behind Swine Fever Outbreak LONDON (Reuters) - A ham sandwich discarded by someone out for a stroll may have caused an outbreak of swine fever in Britain that saw tens of thousands of pigs culled at a cost of million of pounds (dollars), newspapers said on Thursday. The Daily Telegraph quoted the Agriculture Ministry as saying that the outbreak of the disease, which is not dangerous to humans but can wipe out pig populations, hit farms in the Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex regions in eastern England. Landowners called for stricter controls on people walking through farmland, saying that feeding animals with the remains of packed lunches could cause serious harm to the livestock industry. The outbreak was traced to a single pig which lived by a footpath in Norfolk. The sow and her piglets are believed to have infected other pigs in the herd before they died. The Daily Mail said that as well as 35,000 pigs slaughtered at 14 infected farms, another 12,000 were destroyed as a precaution and a further 20,000 to prevent overcrowding at farms banned from moving their pigs. ``The Deadly Sandwich'' was the Mail's headline on the domestic news pages, above a picture of a healthy-looking pig.