At least, that’s the view of the UK’s Financial Times newspaper, which last week noted a growing number of businesses citing the disease as major reason for their woes.

Drawing on research conducted by the media monitoring agency, Romeike, the newspaper claimed businesses far removed from agriculture were now using the disease to explain away their problems, with Avis car hire, P&O and Ryan Hotels being among the worst offenders of the previous couple of weeks.

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