The foot-and-mouth virus strikes cloven-hoofed animals: cows, goats, pigs, deer and sheep.
And when a virus struck the central computer, the collapse was total.
The virus strikes up to 21 million people each year in the US.
Most of these youngsters were perfectly healthy before this unpredictable virus struck.
Last year, the virus struck the first person, in Washington, D.C., in May and the next two, in Louisiana, in June.
New York was the first place the virus struck, in the summer of 1999, and nervousness about it has not disappeared.
Industry officials say Chile is suffering growing pains similar to salmon farming operations in Norway, Scotland and the Faroe Islands, where a different form of the I.S.A. virus struck previously.
It is still not known why the virus struck that cluster of Long Island farms, 60 miles from the Queens epicenter of the outbreak.
Dale will work with the surviving population at Formby, Merseyside, where red numbers have slumped from 1,000 to 100 since the virus struck two years ago.
In our own country, the virus struck at a time when Americans seemed particularly skeptical about our government and large institutions.
Farm managers, particularly those on the East End of Long Island, where the virus struck last year, and other horse breeders said they were taking precautions similar to those at the racetracks, including using the mosquito dunks in standing water.
