[moonchild84]

I live in Dorset - and I remember the last outbreak - I was in Animal Care College at the time. Luckily, none of the livestock on the campus needed to be slaughtered, because the College took measures to ensure it was not passed in or out. I didn't worry about it too much then - but now I have a son and one on the way, it worries me more. As it is easily transferrable between animals and humans, I think the best answer is culling, as treatment and quarantine is a particularly difficult task to enforce. Of course, no one wants animals be to killed because of something that probably comes down to human error, but we do not want a spread of this virus throughout the whole country. I think culling is the least detrimental effect to the economy and the farming community.