Mort Maggie, Convey Ian, Baxter Josephine, Bailey Cathy
Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
J Appl Anim Welf Sci. 2008;11(2):133-48. doi: 10.1080/10888700801925984.
The 2001 UK foot and mouth disease (FMD) crisis is commonly understood to have been a nonhuman animal problem, an economic industrial crisis that was resolved after eradication. By using a different lens, a longitudinal ethnographic study of the health and social consequences of the epidemic, the research reported here indicates that 2001 was a human tragedy as well as an animal one. In a diary-based study, it can be seen that life after the FMD crisis was accompanied by distress, feelings of bereavement, fear of a new disaster, loss of trust in authority and systems of control, and the undermining of the value of local knowledge. Diverse groups experienced distress well beyond the farming community. Such distress remained largely invisible to the range of "official" inquiries into the disaster. That an FMD epidemic of the scale of 2001 could happen again in a developed country is a deeply worrying prospect, but it is to be hoped that contingency plans are evolving along with enhanced understanding of the human, animal, and financial cost.
2001年英国口蹄疫危机通常被认为是一个非人类动物问题，是一场在疫情根除后得到解决的经济产业危机。通过采用不同视角，即对该疫情的健康和社会后果进行纵向人种志研究，本文所报告的研究表明，2001年既是一场动物悲剧，也是一场人类悲剧。在一项基于日记的研究中可以看出，口蹄疫危机后的生活伴随着痛苦、丧亲之痛、对新灾难的恐惧、对权威和控制体系的信任丧失，以及地方知识价值的削弱。不同群体所经历的痛苦远远超出了农业社区的范围。这种痛苦在对这场灾难的一系列“官方”调查中基本上是看不见的。像2001年这样规模的口蹄疫疫情在发达国家再次发生是一个令人深感担忧的前景，但希望随着对人类、动物和经济成本的进一步了解，应急预案也在不断完善。
