How foot-and-mouth was a disaster for British tourism

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With tourism worth £24bn, the industry questioned the wisdom of the draconian measures put in place to combat the spread of the disease. Robert Mendick reports

A tree is silhouetted by a large burning pyre of livestock infected by foot-and-mouth disease near Wigton, Cumbria, on 15 April 2001A cow is lowered onto a burning pyre near the Scottish village of Ecclefechan on 21 April 2001.

 

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Do you know something we don't? This is the second foot and mouth post you posted? What about SARS? BSE? I love a good retro virus.....

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