DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Britain defends policy on cattle Some critics have claimed that vaccination would have brought a ■ Practice of killing swifter end to the outbreak than infected animals the mass slaughter of animals. has curbed foot- But David King, the govern­ ment’s chief scientist said author­ and-mouth ities don’t believe vaccination outbreak, officials could have brought the epidemic under control. insist Culling by contrast, he said, had stopped the epidemic. ASSOCIATED PRESS “It was throughout the country and we have now limited it to just LONDON — Britain’s culling two hot spots,” King said. policy has curbed the foot-and- Foot-and-mouth infects cloven- mouth outbreak and only two dis­ hoofed animals. While not fatal, ease “hot spots” remain, govern­ the disease causes wasting that ment officials said yesterday. can devastate a country’s live­ Chief veterinarian Jim Scuda­ stock industry. more said there were still cases Cases in humans are extremely near Penrith and Hexham in the rare, and eating infected meat is north of England. not considered dangerous. But culling all animals on af­ fected farms and surrounding property had broken the path of contagion everywhere else, he told a news conference. To date, 2,015 cases have been confirmed since the first infection was detected on Feb. 20. More than 3.8 million animals — mostly cattle, sheep and pigs — have been killed to prevent the spread of the disease.

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