Hmm... another foot and mouth outbreak

[Ed]

Is it just me, or is it awfully fortuitous for the latest strain of foot and mouth disease to wreak havok on the Surrey countryside to have accidentally escaped from a lab that makes foot and mouth vaccine?    After the last outbreak the government reserved the right to use vaccine to bring any future outbreaks under control. Could it be that somebody somewhere looked into their fridge and thought it a shame to keep so much vaccine as stock and never make any money from it?

Or am I being unreasonably cynical?

[SharonBell]

Research scientists have the same ability to be bad as to be good as the rest of the population, so methinks it a plausible idea, Ed. And a great story idea. 

Of course, some of us have had foot IN mouth disease all their lives...with no cure in sight!