DESPITE all the media hype, it seems foot and mouth disease has not infected
any people in Britain after all. Of the 13 people screened for the disease so
far, all have tested negative.
Last week the highly publicised case of Paul Stamper, a slaughterman who
developed blisters in his mouth after being sprayed with fluid from a carcass,
prompted a national health scare. One newspaper even called for such people to
be quarantined. But Stamper has tested negative.
He and the 12 other people suspected of having FMD were tested by using a
technique called PCR to look for…
