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To: lorne who wrote (68306)	4/26/2001 12:06:18 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116762

greater beef shortage South African Censorship Spreads Disease to West Adriana Stuijt Thursday, April 26, 2001 Censorship by South African authorities has led to a dramatic increase in organized crime and even to the worldwide spread of disease, including foot-and-mouth disease. More than 30 South African journalists, including myself, regularly post uncensored news about developments in South Africa on the Web site censorbugbear.com. The site is very popular among the more than 1 million South African expatriates who have already left the country since 1995 and now live scattered throughout the Western world. Reports on censorbugbear.com first disclosed the spread of FMD to South Africa and the failure of the government to stop its spread within South Africa and to other nations it does commercial business with – months before FMD began making headlines in Europe and the U.S. Some background: The International Epizootic Organization in Paris, which is the international veterinary reporting agency to which more than 180 countries are signatories, reports that the present strain of foot-and-mouth disease started its relentless march among Western commercial herds about three years ago. The identified strain comes originally from Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and China, where FMD outbreaks among livestock remain unreported internationally and are being treated instead of the livestock being culled. FMD-infected livestock lose massive amounts of weight but do not necessarily die from it. The disease takes away the livestock's commercial export value for fresh dairy and meat products to all Western countries, which have much stricter veterinary control requirements than Asian countries. Far Eastern island nations such as Australia and New Zealand have managed to successfully protect their FMD-free export status by throwing up extensive veterinary barriers against FMD from the surrounding countries and have thus far remained free of it. Endemic FMD in Asia This strain of FMD remains endemic in many Asian countries to this day - where the livestock is not culled – as is now being done in Western countries such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.(cont) newsmax.com