Dr Mohammed El Jack arrived from Sudan in 1996. He is carrying out research into skin diseases for sheep and cattle at the Royal Veterinary School where he also teaches. He likes Stonehenge.
Q: Were you living in the UK during the time when foot and mouth broke out?
Yes. I was living here, and then I was really surprised because foot and mouth in Sudan when it happens we just leave the animal to just heal naturally and then to continue life but here I was so surprised that all the animals were killed at one time because you know I hear that Britain is disease-free so they killed all the animals, so I was telling, talking with one of my friends,
"Why don't they take these animals back to Africa where people can have and enjoy them?"
But you know of course you know it is a disease, and then in Britain it is a disease-free country so they have got to they try to kill them yeah. But foot and mouth disease I saw it in my life several times in my life in Sudan yeah.
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