I'M no vet but is it just possible that the foot-and-mouth virus may be spread by seagulls?
In addition to all the other contact routes, this could explain the 1981 case in the Isle of Wight, believed to have been carried airborne from Brittany, in Northern France.
D WILLIAMS,
Medway Road,
Worcester.
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