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Article: Health: The summertime blues With fields left ungrazed after the foot-and-mouth crisis, hay fever is affecting more people than ever, some of whom have never suffered symptoms before.What, asks Roger Dobson, can they do?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2001
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The thousands of fields of tall, uncut meadow grass gently swaying
in the warm breeze may look for all the world like an image of rural
bliss, but something is wrong.
The grass should not be that long. At this time of the year it
ought to be short, chomped down to the ground by grazing cattle and
sheep being fattened for market.
The problem is that the foot-and-mouth crisis, and the loss of
more than three million culled animals, has left many fields that are
usually grazed either out of bounds because of fears over infection
or without any surviving stock to keep the grass down.
And that that is not only bad for the animals and farmers, it's
depressing news for Britain's growing number ...