synthesis

View Original

More Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain

I'm hanging out at the Googleplex this weekend, attending SciFoo, and I see there is a new outbreak of FMD in Britain.  Here is the NYT coverageHere is the CNN coverage.  Earlier today Oliver Morton showed me a story that claimed the outbreak might be an isolated escape from a lab in the English countryside.  We'll have to wait and see how widespread the virus actually is.