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...Wild Sheep Chase, 1982 An amateur detective on a quest for a special breed of sheep encounters a woman with strange ears and the Sheep Man. Part of a three-book series, Sheep Chase has been translated into about 17 different languages...
...vaccine from Merial in case of a wider outbreak, leading to calls in the national press for the private company to be stripped of profits form the sale should it be confirmed as the source of the infection. FMD causes blistering and fevers in cloven-hoofed animals including cows, sheep, pigs and goats, but rarely infects humans. While rarely fatal, it decimates the health of livestock, reducing weight and milk yield...
...news raised hopes that the disease, which causes blistering and fever in pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and deer, was not spread by other animals and could therefore be easily contained. But it has also put the safety of bioresearch facilities such as Pirbright under scrutiny...
...sealing access roads to a farm in Surrey, southwest of London, does indeed signal that a killer may again be on the loose in the U.K. Six years ago, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), an infectious illness that targets animals with cloven hooves - pigs and ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer - devastated the British farming industry and British tourism and battered the reputation of Tony Blair's government. Ministers reacted too slowly when the disease was first detected and compounded that mistake by giving reassurances that quickly proved false. The lush British countryside was laced with gothic horrors...
...Agency swapped nursery rhymes and kiddie pop for relaxed classical music at a chain of British toy shops. The toy chain thought its stores were for kids, says Treasure, and forgot that the spending power belonged to parents who didn't want to be bombarded with Baa Baa Black Sheep. With the new music in place, he claims, sales jumped...