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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1553)	3/27/2001 6:13:46 PM
From: Doo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12411

Another tid-bit from a fellow local to me: When I read your post yesterday I hoped that you would receive a quick response from someone with more professional training than myself - perhaps someone will be responding soon. I have had some personal expenience with Foot and Mouth disease which I can share with you. I worked in Bangladesh for three years as a livestock development worker. FMD was a very common problem there and quite widespread. It was the least problematic contageous disease that we commonly dealt with in cattle (Blackleg and Rabies were also serious problems) The cattle almost never died with FMD and we had a list of management practices that a farmer could employ to help the cattle to work through it and they usually did. For example, the sores on the tongue prevent cattle from grazing - as they can't wrap their tongues around the grass to take a bite. If cows were given cut grass for a few weeks however they could keep on eating and usually recovered. I tell you this only to let you know that in my experience FMD is definitely worse than a "bad cold" - but probably not as devastating as some media reports would have us believe.