Disease lab results 'by Tuesday'

[stubacca68]

Inspectors probing the suspected source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Surrey hope to have the results of their inquiries in the next 36 hours.
The Health and Safety Executive is examining whether the Pirbright site could have been the source of the outbreak which was confirmed on Friday.

Two facilities at the Pirbright complex were using a strain of the virus for research and for vaccines.

It was the same strain found at an infected farm four miles away.

Biosecurity denial

The government has imposed a ban on the movement of all livestock in England, Scotland and Wales while the European Commission has banned live animal exports from the UK.

Inspectors are initially focusing their investigation into the outbreak on private pharmaceutical company Merial, which develops vaccines, as it had most recently used the strain.

Both it and the publicly funded Institute for Animal Health research facility, deny there has been a breach in biosecurity.

full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6932602.stm

If this lab is responsible then serious action should be taken against the lab, i hope that this outbreak is not a wide spread as the last one.

[TGLucario]

well it looks like there was no spread...it would of been horrible if there was a spread!