Article: Vet's compassion softens blow of dealing with foot and mouth disease.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

ALVARADO, Texas _ In November, a state veterinarian helped design a fictional scenario in which an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease engulfs Texas before quickly spreading to Mexico and Canada.

Four months later, Dr. Ken Waldrup of the Texas Animal Health Commission was dropped into the real thing, working 10-hour days and telling family farmers that he had come to wipe out all of their animals and destroy their livelihood.

The bearded, lanky Texan was among 160 foreign veterinarians rushed to Britain to help overwhelmed authorities deal with an epidemic that would require more than a million head of livestock to be killed. He returned to Alvarado, 25 ...

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