The United Kingdom and France will have destroyed upwards of 300,000 animals by month's end. It causes blisters on the mouths and feet of infected animals. The victims don't die, but become stunted.
Females stop giving milk and animals of both sexes stop growing for about three weeks.
In the low-margin world of agriculture, three weeks can make the difference between black ink and red ink for the farmer. CNN regrets the error. The problem is that once you use the vaccine you can't distinguish which animals have had the disease and which animals have been vaccinated. For that reason, Brown says, even vaccinated animals are destroyed once the outbreak is contained. She says 17 percent of America's jobs are related in some way to agriculture.