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Saturday Morning News

Britain May Vaccinate for Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Aired March 31, 2001 - 9:15 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Britain is looking toward a possible vaccination program as a way to stop the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic there, and in the meantime, authorities are continuing to destroy thousands of animals suspected of carrying the virus.

CNN's Diana Muriel reports from Scotland.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DIANA MURIEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The British prime minister is taking charge. At the end of the sixth week of the U.K.'s foot-and-mouth epidemic, the crisis still appears to be out of control. Tony Blair met with senior military officers, representatives from the farming and tourist industries, and vets in southern Scotland Friday.

Top of the agenda, a possible vaccination program to help stop the spread of the disease.

TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Certain people are putting forward the issue of vaccination. However, I've got no doubt at all that what we have to do is to try and make the policy we have, which is containment by slaughtering out the infected animals...

MURIEL: The army has set a target of 10,000 animals a day to be slaughtered in this district, each within 24 hours of confirmation of foot-and-mouth disease. Smoke from the fires as the animals burn fills the air, choking the children as they leave the school gate.

The mothers here distressed.

JILL CHETRIT, MOTHER: Yes, just think it's so awful, because it's beside the school, and especially starting on a school day to burn the animals, when perhaps they could have waited for the weekend, so that it's the holidays.

MURIEL: The farmers, desperate to save their livestock, keeping them in barns to protect them from infection. But even that may not be enough to save them. Fiona Micolata (ph) thinks she may lose these sheep. So concerned was she, she came down to Dumfries to speak to the prime minister.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They have not been outside in the daylight for five weeks now. We were served notice yesterday that we are in a three-kilometer cull area. There's nothing confirmed, and they will in fact be coming to cull our animals.

MURIEL (on camera): Despite all the precautions, foot-and-mouth disease has a firm hold here. The county already has over 100 cases. A vaccination program could slow down the rate of infection, but those vaccinated animals would still have to be slaughtered. The killing would continue.

Diana Muriel, CNN, Dumfries, Scotland.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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