Shut the countryside again, 農業者s 嘆願d

農業者s called for Britain's countryside to be put 支援する into 検疫 last night まっただ中に 開始するing 関心 over a new 爆発 of foot and mouth.

恐れるs are growing that the 疫病／流行性の will now run on into the winter and beyond, に引き続いて an 突発／発生 in an area of the North East which had been clean for months.

Eleven new 事例／患者s have been identified 近づく Hexham in Northumberland in the last five days, making （疑いを）晴らす the 病気 has not been 含む／封じ込めるd.

分かれて, a 'blue box' 除外 zone has been 延長するd in Cumbria に引き続いて 26 事例／患者s in a little over two weeks.

The 開発s fuelled （人命などを）奪う，主張するs of complacency and a 欠如（する） of 支配（する）／統制する from 政府 大臣s. Tony Blair, who was supposed to have taken 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of the 危機, is on holiday, as is the 田舎の 事件／事情／状勢s 長官 Margaret Beckett.

副 総理大臣 John Prescott is 名目上 in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 in their absence, while the 義務 大臣 at the Department for 環境, Food and 田舎の 事件／事情／状勢s (Defra) is Lord Whitty - but both have kept 静かな.

Yesterday as thousands of livestock were 存在 虐殺（する）d, 公式の／役人s used marksmen to gun 負かす／撃墜する a group of young cows in one field because it was considered too difficult to move them.

All animal movements have been 封鎖するd in an 除外 zone of some 400 sq miles 近づく Hexham, where more than 25,000 cattle and 250,000 sheep are at 危険 from 感染.

Police and 会議 公式の／役人s are patrolling 田舎の roads to 妨げる any 違法な animal movements and 確実にする farm 乗り物s and 労働者s are carrying out proper disinfection.

Milk タンカーs are only 存在 許すd in under 護衛する and the public are 存在 勧めるd not to visit the area unless they have 商売／仕事 there.

農業者s どこかよそで believe the same advice should be given to ramblers and holidaymakers using footpaths on livestock farms across the UK.

They believe the 最新の resurgence of the 病気 has been 誘発する／引き起こすd by a hidden 井戸／弁護士席 of 病気 in the 国家の sheep herd, as happened recently around Thirsk, in North Yorkshire and in the Brecon Beacons, むちの跡s.

And they 恐れる it is a consequence of the haste with which 大臣s 行為／法令／行動するd to 再開する footpaths and encourage people 支援する into the countryside.

'When foot and mouth can suddenly 再現する three months 負かす／撃墜する the line since the last 確認するd 感染 it is a 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 原因（となる） for 関心,' said Malcolm Corbett, chairman of the 国家の 農業者s' Union in Northumberland.

'Sadly we have got to 推定する／予想する that when the 病気 gets into an area like this it will spread.'

Peter Davidson-Smith, chairman of the Gloucestershire NFU, said the 出現 of new clusters 示唆するd 保護（する）／緊急輸入制限s should not have been dropped.

'I really feel we are going to have to rethink the whole thing and put the 消毒薬 mats 支援する 負かす／撃墜する,' he said.

Richard Haddock, a 農業者 in Devon and a 地域の NFU 広報担当者, 勧めるd 地元の 会議s to の近くに footpaths again.

He 追加するd: 'It is （疑いを）晴らす now that the 病気 is hiding in sheep and could 爆発する anywhere at any time.'

一方／合間 Tory leadership 候補者 Kenneth Clarke yesterday turned up the heat on 労働's 扱うing of the 危機.

Speaking at a countryside show 近づく Nottingham, he said: 'I wish John Prescott would come out of hiding and を取り引きする foot and mouth. It's 明確に a big problem.'

A 広報担当者 for Defra 否定するd 大臣s were keeping their 長，率いるs 負かす／撃墜する and said Mr Prescott, Lord Whitty and 負かす／撃墜するing Street were yesterday given 詳細（に述べる）s of the 最新の 開発s.

He defended the use of marksmen to kill a group of young cows, 説 this was the most humane method in the circumstances.

'This was an 孤立するd 事例／患者. We had a small group of heifers in a 状況／情勢 where pulling them all together, 負担ing them up and taking them off to be 虐殺（する）d would have 原因（となる）d them 苦しめる,' he said.

'We called in trained marksmen, not the normal slaughterers, who stood at the 味方する of the field and took them out one by one.

'Th ey only pulled the 誘発する／引き起こす when they knew they could get a clean kill.'

The animals were at 石／投石する Hall Farm, Catton, 近づく Allendale, which was the second 所有物／資産／財産 in the area to 確認する the 病気.

The total number of 事例／患者s has now climbed to 1,980, but with almost 8,000 隣人ing farms caught up in 予防の culls 3.88million animals have been killed.

? Another 事例／患者 of foot-and-mouth was today 報告（する）／憶測d in Northumberland, bringing the total in the 現在の 突発／発生 to 12, said Defra.