See this virus crisis as human 'foot and mouth'

A GP and chairman of NFU Scotland’s Stewartry Branch has advised farmers to take Covid-19 infection control seriously and to think of it as being like foot- and- mouth, but affecting humans.

Ewan Pate
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See this virus crisis as human 'foot and mouth'

A GP and chairman of NFU Scotland's Stewartry Branch has advised farmers to take Covid-19 infection control seriously and to think of it as being like foot- and- mouth, but affecting humans. Dr John...

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