b'Is Factory Farming making us sick?movement of animals, people and vehiclesTreatment that have been contaminated with the virus,For animals, there is no cure but affected and via animal products such as meat, milkanimals will usually recover naturally in and semen 85 . two to three weeks 90 . However, since those animals may lose productivity and the Long-distance animal trading and densefarmers, therefore, lose profit, it is policy in populations of animals typical of modernthe UK to slaughter all affected animals and farming practices help to facilitate theany others who have been exposed to the spread. The virus does not readily transmitinfectionx 91 . During the 2001 UK outbreak, to humans, but it is possible to spread tothe animals were shot with a captive bolt people through close contact with infectedgun - a retractable metal bolt used to stun animals or drinking their raw milk but notanimals in slaughterhouses. Following this, through eating infected meat 86 . their main arteries should have been cut or a metal rod inserted into the gun hole Symptoms in animals to destroy the brain stem (use of this rod Fever is followed by the development ofis now illegal). However, there is evidence blisters, chiefly in the mouth, or on the feet.that for many during the cull, this wasnt the FMD is rarely fatal, except in very youngcase. They recovered consciousness and animals who may die without showing anyexperienced their own slow death piled up symptoms. In dairy cows, there is a highwith their fellows 92 . Younger animals were incidence of miscarriage, chronic mastitiskilled by a painful and traumatic injection and lameness conditions that are alreadydirectly into the heart.endemic in dairy herds 87 . Vaccination is an alternative to culling. However, vaccination programmes can Symptoms in people affect the ability to trade freely in animals FMD crosses the species barrier withand meat products and so they are often difficulty but there have been a fewresisted. recorded cases of humans getting sick 88 . Symptoms are flu-like with a fever and soreThe last recorded cases of FMD in people in throat, although tingling blisters on thethe UK was in the 1960s. Those who got ill hands and feet and in the mouth have alsowere quarantined until they recovered 93 .been recorded 89 .17'