Like EI FMD is highly contagious, however, FMD is considerably more serious as it spreads to cloven-hoofed animals including cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats. During these FMD outbreaks an estimated 4 million livestock were slaughtered on 9,000 farms in the UK (including many healthy animals as part of 'contiguous' or preventative culling on farms neighbouring infected farms) and 270,000 were culled in The Netherlands. The impacts on people were both economic, through financial/business/ tourism-related losses, and psychological, through the exposure to loss of livestock, culling, and massive funeral pyres; the latter affecting not just farmers and their families, but also the wider population through media images on the television and in newspapers [6] [7] [8] . In the UK higher 'caseness' as indicated by the GHQ(G) was found in farmers from 'badly infected' areas, although higher psychological morbidity generally, was reported in farmers from both badly infected and unaffected areas [9] .