Incurable Virus Killing Thousands Of Lambs

I feel really sorry for the farmers here.They have a hard enough job as it is without this and contrary to many thinking that farmers are in the business purely for cash-many take great pride in building up flocks/herds to high quality standards and do so over many years.
I am just at a loss to understand how these viruses seem to develop one after another with increasing frequency- we seem to have beaten one and then next year or the year after there is a new challenge.Old git I may be but with the exception of the odd outbreak of foot and mouth-we never experienced this number of emerging diseases 'in my day'.Or am I looking back with nostalgia and through rose tinted spectacles to a time when food was sourced and supplied in a more natural way?

cant afford lamb ? try buying direct from the farmer.its half the price

Soon we will hear the Bleeting of all the Fat Farmers for COMPENSATION!

I recall something simmilar happening due too nuclear fall out from Chernobyl. Could this be due too nuclear fall out from the Japanese disaster ?

Another one escaped from the labs no doubt - If the scientists make it then they test it and sometimes things get out of hand. They appear to have had a go at everything else so I guess it is the poor old lambs turn.

Another excuse for supermarkets to put up the price of Lamb. Bloody Europe, we should never have been part of it!

Sounds like a DEFRA experiment! Farmers will be compensated and the prices will go up. Meanwhile the depravation and ill treatment of animals will go on. Am I right or am I right?

hope meat becomes very expensive....... morrisons have now installed cctv in its slaughterhouses i wonder why ill treatment .

lots of you are being very quick to blame the farmer for chemicals etc, BUT, how many of you flush, bleach, washing up liquid,washing powder, shampoo,soap,and other products alike down the drain's of your home, this all ends up in our water too, all chemicals sprayed on crops nowaday has to be EU approved loads have been taken off the shelf, 90% of the ones on the market now are safe enough to drink!, some of you look closer to home.

price of lamb will go up heres one who aint buying it

This will cause a panic. A new virus spread by Midges & Mozzies. Very disturbing. One thing for sure....The price of Spring Lamb & Beef will rise.

I am amazed at some of the comments on this post! This will turn into a dissaster for those farmers whose flocks are infected. I hope some of you misguided people will re-read the text, it is thought to be carried by midges not badges etc. Just for once think of the people who are effected by this and remember it represents a great loss of income!

Lol the true story however is that GM foods rule the day. Insects are are having so much stuff thrown at them and becoming immune and indeed breeding new strains of these viruses that in the end, we will ultimately suffer. This is the beginning, America is inserting a cell into mozis that kill them after they hatch. However, these creatures still live for a period of time, so if the bloody thing is still biting things its passing it on?!
Man has gone mad, farming is mad, giving animals gm food stuffs and anti biotics which are all passed to you and I.
Lol too funny though, the brain dead masses are all to worried about Xfactor to be concerned.

This is awful and very worrying it must be very upsetting to see this badly deformed little lambs die in such terrible circumstances. I hope they find a vaccine soon, Europe is finding more ways to be a burden.

I never see english lamb in my supermarket so who gets it

It shows exactly what humanity thinks of animals when this story is published in the finance section.

poor little darlins

as a farmers son myself it is heart breaking to see animals suffer in this way and other European have a lot to answer for,you go anywhere abroad and see how animals are treated then come back to the uk and you will notice the difference,animals in this counrty are treated and looked after far better and the last thing farmers need right now is this sort of thing going on

This could be a catastrophe for sheep farming in the UK.

the most dangerous animals on the planet are the ones that can't even be seen with the naked eye