Breaking - NC testing suspected foot and mouth case (breathe easy--now saying tests negative!)greenspun.com : LUSENET : Current News : One Thread |
no link yet, but abcnews.go.com has it as an item. A hot link isn't provided yet.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
N.C. Seeks Foot-and-Mouth Tests The Associated Press Friday, March 30, 2001; 12:43 p.m. ESTRALEIGH, N.C. –– State agriculture officials said Friday they are testing for a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease.
Samples of dead hog tissue have been sent to federal agriculture officials to be tested for the disease, a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture said. The suspicious case is in Martin County.
Tissue samples from a dead hog were flown Thursday night from Robersonville Packing, to a USDA lab in New York, department spokesman Jim Knight said.
"We're testing for foot-and-mouth. We have a suspected foreign animal disease outbreak," he said. "At this point, we're just waiting for test results."
© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
I just had a sinking feeling in my stomuck, after reading that.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
You have no idea what this means. There are more pigs than people in this state--millions of 'em. I doubt that precautions against F&M have been taken, so if this site proves to be positive, North Carolina will have some serious economic problems--and the state budget has already been cut. Let's hope it's not the real thing.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Link Samples of dead hog tissue have been sent to federal agriculture officials to be tested for the disease, a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture said. The suspicious case is in Martin County.
Knight said a state agriculture inspector at the packing plant in Robersonville, 78 miles east of Raleigh, saw dead animals and became concerned because of heightened awareness in the state about the disease.
She contacted a USDA inspector who agreed samples should be taken. They were flown to the isolated federal lab on Plum Island, in the Long Island Sound, the only facility where foot-and-mouth testing is done.
Another sample was taken from a Sampson County market, southeast of Raleigh, and sent to the federal lab, Knight said.
He said the packing plant and the Sampson County market may both have been served by the same trucking company. “The hauling equipment may have been to both locations,” he said.
The Robersonville plant has been quarantined.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Ouch.. hope it's negative. I gather the pig farmers haven't quite recovered from the hurricane and flooding, this could be the last straw for a lot of them...
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
abcnews.go.com now says that it is a false alarm. However when I click on the link, I get a "page cannot be found" error.Sorry to get everyone all worked up, if this is indeed a false alarm.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Finally got it to come up...Foot-and-Mouth False Alarm Tests Allay Concerns Over Suspected Outbreak in N.C.
By David Ruppe
March 30 — North Carolina farmers are breathing a sigh of relief after testing discounted a suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among state livestock.
Agricultural officials nationwide have been on high alert for possible symptoms of the disease, which has plagued Britain and led to the slaughter of thousands of cattle and sheep. Officials from North Carolina's Department of Agriculture earlier today said they were investigating a possible case of the disease in Martin County. Tissue samples were taken from dead hogs for sampling at a federal livestock testing facility on Plum Island, just off Long Island, New York.
The hogs had shown some of the symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease, said Peter Green, a state Department of Agriculture spokesperson on the matter.
A media briefing is scheduled for later today by state agricultural officials to discuss the incident.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Oh good, Drudge says negative.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Not only the pig farmers, if test show positive..the sheep and cattle could also in danger. This is something to really keep an eye on!
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Font Larger?
Sorry about that folks...
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
N.C. Pig Doesn't Have Foot-Mouth The Associated Press Friday, March 30, 2001; 1:26 p.m. ESTWASHINGTON –– Tests on a pig from a North Carolina packing plant suspected of having foot-and-mouth disease turned out negative, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
Another sample taken from a separate market was being tested.
"This is something that is not uncommon," said department spokesman Kevin Herglotz. About 700 such tests are done annually, according to the department.
The United States has not had a confirmed case of foot-and-mouth since 1929, but federal and state officials frequently test animals that exhibit symptoms similar to those caused by the disease, including blisters on the hooves and mouth.
© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
What happened? I didn't make it bold print.Also notice in the article, another sample is being tested and they don't have the results for it.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Maggie,
I was trying to fix the smaller font that was in the source from msnbc.com. I tried to enlarge it, but I guess when this particular font is inlarged, it gets darker. I didn't see a bold turn on in it, but I could have missed it.
Sheeps
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Thanks sheeps, I just didn't know why the letters in my post got so big, so that's why I ask.When I wrote your name, Lambie (Lamby) Pie came to mind as a cute name.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Radio news this morning was indicating that control measures at Boston's Logan International Airport aren't nearly strict enough. So, more and more possibilties about where we will first see F&M here in the States.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
The article that I had posted here, is from Drudge Reports, it had the red light going over the headline...which to me ment it was recently put there. Within minutes, there was an update of no problem. I could have missed it but, the original article is not on the site now. Also, Sheep couldn't get the article that talked about a possible problem...just the one that said no problem.What I am trying to say is...this is one of the quickest news update, that I've seen.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Forgot to say, there is a post on 21 cows that will be or have recently been killed in Texas, to be tested for Mad Cow Disease.
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001
Maggie, you are right about there being more that are being tested and the results aren`t in yet! here is the article from today on it.....By Randy Fabi
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in North Carolina, the United States on Friday stepped up efforts against the highly contagious disease by banning imports of used farm equipment from nations with the virus.
U.S. officials said a handful of pigs suspected of carrying foot-and- mouth disease in a North Carolina slaughterhouse facility tested negative. Two other pigs in a neighboring county were also being tested as a precaution.
The devastating virus cripples pigs, cattle, sheep and goats for months and sharply reduces milk and meat production. The virus, which rarely endangers humans, can be spread by shoes and clothing.
U.S. animal health inspectors and border patrols have been on heightened alert since the highly contagious disease jumped from Britain into France earlier this month.
The disease has since spread to the Netherlands and Ireland. Argentina, Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries have also discovered cases of foot-and-mouth.
American officials have warned that an outbreak in the United States, free of foot-and-mouth since 1929, could cause billions of dollars worth of losses to farmers.
Usda Investigates Suspected Cases
An inspector on a routine visit to Robersonville Packing in Martin County, near Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday found fever- and blister-like lesions in the mouths and between the toes of at least three hogs set for slaughter, said Danny Peet, owner of the plant.
``They (inspectors) saw little lesions ... that appeared on the foot. Bruises were on the foot and it looked like blisters in the mouth area,'' Peet said. His slaughterhouse processes about 85 hogs a day, along with cattle, goats and lamb.
The hogs were immediately moved to an isolation pen. After slaughter, tissue samples from their lungs, feet, mouths and tongues were sent to a USDA lab in Plum Island, N.Y.
USDA spokesman Kevin Herglotz said test results issued on Friday showed the pigs did not have the disease.
The USDA also quarantined and took tissue samples from two pigs in neighboring Sampson County, he said. Tests results from the Sampson County pigs were expected early Saturday.
-- Anonymous, March 31, 2001
This is great! I can read this without my glasses. If I lean far enough back.
-- Anonymous, March 31, 2001