In the spring of 2001, Britain was wracked by its first large scale epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease since the late 1960s.
The country’s livestock farmers were still embroiled in the lockdown that accompanied Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a neurological disease of cattle, that would
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