Foot-and-mouth disease is one of the most fiercely contagious of viral infectionsfor beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer, antelope and hedgehogs. But even in the midst of epizootics, when tens of thousands of animals have had to be destroyed, man has seemed almost miraculously immune, no matter how closely he may have worked with the afflicted livestock. To Bachelor Bob Brewis, who lived on his brother's farm in Yetlington, a tiny village in England's North Country, a doctor's suggestion that he might have Britain's first human case of foot-and-mouth disease was too...
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