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Foot-And-Mouth Disease And Farmed Deer

Volume 623: debated on Friday 9 March 2001

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asked Her Majesty's Government:What contingency plans they have if farmed deer become infected with foot-and-mouth virus. [HL989]

If farmed deer become infected with foot and mouth disease, they will be slaughtered and disposed of in the same way as any other species of farmed livestock.