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Foot and Mouth Disease

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) updated journalists on Foot and Mouth. She said that the Prime Minister was being kept informed of any developments today whilst he was up in Scotland. Officials were currently attending a COBR meeting, and there had been no confirmed cases since early last week. The Chief Vet Debby Reynolds had stressed again over the weekend the need for relentless vigilance, and had expressed her gratitude for those in farming communities. In terms of Professor Spratt’s review on biosecurity, we believed that this would report towards the end of this week, but that exact timings were a matter for Professor Spratt. The same applied to the timings on the further HSE work.

Put to the PMS that the National Farmers Union (NFU) had said they were very optimistic yesterday, and given that the Prime Minister was now in Scotland, was he happy about the current situation, the PMS said that the Prime Minister was being kept informed of any developments. Although there had been no confirmed cases for a few days, we obviously had to be very mindful that this was a highly virulent disease, and that preventing its spread was our absolute priority. As Debby Reynolds had said, whilst there had been no cases recently, it was relentless vigilance that was required.

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