Mort, Maggie and Convery, Ian and Bailey, Cathy and Baxter, Josephine (2004) The Health and Social Consequences of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic. UNSPECIFIED.
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This report demonstrates that the 2001 Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) epidemic was a disaster for large numbers of rural people. By disaster we mean substantial and enduring distress and disruption. The research is based on systematic analysis of testimonies given by an (extraordinary) group of ‘ordinary citizens’, of their experience of living with and through the epidemic. It draws out evidence about the effects of the epidemic across a wide range of occupational groups. It makes recommendations for policy and practice which emanate directly from the longitudinal data and from the process of synthesising different kinds of evidence.