{"id":433,"date":"2013-05-15T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/?p=433"},"modified":"2013-05-15T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:37:48","slug":"fmd-what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2013\/05\/15\/fmd-what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"FMD:  What\u2019s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/01\/cow-thinking1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-452\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/01\/cow-thinking1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/01\/cow-thinking1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/files\/2011\/01\/cow-thinking1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Say \u201cfoot-and-mouth disease\u201d really fast.\u00a0 (Foot-and-mouth disease.)\u00a0 Did you blur the \u201cand\u201d into an \u201cin\u201d?\u00a0 Every comedian wannabe is having a hay day with this one.\u00a0 As my father-in-law says, you don\u2019t need to know much to have an opinion.\u00a0 Those are the types of opinions being bandied about in the online comments associated with news of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in South Korea.\u00a0 As I expected, there were vegetarians taking advantage of the situation to rant against animal agriculture.\u00a0 Unexpectedly, there was frequent discussion of the name of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>As Dr. Steve Van Wie has warned, there were frequent connections made between FMD, the animal disease, and hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD), the disease of young children.\u00a0 These are not caused by the same virus at all!!\u00a0 Someone claimed that FMD took the lives of a couple people in England in 2001.\u00a0 He may be right if he meant suicides, although he had an under-estimate of that toll of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know who officially names diseases, but they might consider listening to these comments.\u00a0 Crisis communicators talk about making your message clear.\u00a0 Dispersing the fog of misinformation and getting clear messages across will require attention to multiple media threads and understanding where your audience is coming from.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published Jan 4, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say \u201cfoot-and-mouth disease\u201d really fast.\u00a0 (Foot-and-mouth disease.)\u00a0 Did you blur the \u201cand\u201d into an \u201cin\u201d?\u00a0 Every comedian wannabe is having a hay day with this one.\u00a0 As my father-in-law says, you don\u2019t need to know much to have an opinion.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/2013\/05\/15\/fmd-what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15823,15824],"tags":[15858,15860],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmd-news","category-just-my-thoughts","tag-fmd","tag-foot-and-mouth-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jmsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}