The following is a transcript of the interview, broadcast on CNN International television. Three million cattle set for slaughter. What started out a month and a half ago as one case is now over 740.
Tourism is affected drastically.
On the disease, it's gone from one case to 740. There is now talk about a vaccination program. Well you stop it essentially by making sure that you slaughter out the affected animals. And actually, rather less than one percent of the livestock farms in the country are directly affected by foot and mouth disease. Now it is a big problem for the farming industry, it's a huge problem and a tragedy for some of the individual farmers that have lost their livelihoods, making sure they've got compensation.