Still waiting on an official announcement — as opposed to guarded statements — that the source of the foot and mouth outbreak is from either a nearby government or commercial research laboratory. As notes John Vidal in The Guardian [strangely not available on its Web site]:
The fear is that next time what escapes from a lab in Britain will not be foot and mouth, which mainly affects animals, but something such as polio, avian flu or ebola, or something that could be spread by human breath. The consequences would be unimaginable.
