You start acting crazy - but that's only for mad cow disease. Foot and mouth can't hurt humans. He looks at me with wonder. I ask if the US could ever succumb to such an epidemic. Ben's unblinking blue eyes grow wide and grave.
People are very ignorant and stubborn in America.
Sure it could happen. Thoroughly unnerved, I move on by taxi to the queue outside Madame Tussaud's. Here I find Nick and Julie from Minnesota. Since arriving in Britain 10 days ago, the couple have drunk only bottled water - nothing to do with the farming crisis, which Julie mistakenly perceives as some kind of tourist attraction. We figured there's enough to do in the countryside without getting into that.