Much will depend on whether Mr Ignatieff cures his current bout of foot-in-mouth disease.
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In many ways, this was a fairly typical intervention from Juncker, who has a touch of foot-in-mouth disease.
On the Republican side, where ten rivals are squeaking round him, George W. may yet be tripped up by his rakish past or by his father's old ailment, foot-in-mouth disease.
"The foot-and-mouth-disease virus epidemic in the UK in 2001 was disastrous and cost the economy billions of pounds in control measures and compensation, " explained Dr Bryan Charleston, Head of Livestock Viral Diseases Programme at the Pirbright Institute.
Its provincial hotels, like Hilton's or those of lesser groups, such as Jarvis, were never too hard-hit by world events, though foot-and-mouth disease hurt them in 2001.
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LONDON, England -- Seven more cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been confirmed in the UK, taking the total number of sites affected to 39.
The regulations, brought in following foot-and-mouth disease, are expected to be cut to six days.
The United States reported its last outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 1929, while Canada and swathes of Central America have been free of the virus since the early 1950s.
Scotland's tourism industry has been badly affected by the restrictions imposed in the wake of the foot-and-mouth disease.
Conservative peer Lord Inglewood, who farms in Cumbria, disclosed that foot-and-mouth disease had been confirmed on his sheep and dairy farm near Penrith over the weekend.
After helping Maff during the 1967 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, he moved to Kenya in 1968 where he worked until 1974.
The big worry is predators, such as coyotes and nightmares such as foot-and-mouth disease (though the spotlight this summer was on Texan cattlemen in their battle against a case of mad-cow disease).
In some countries, indeed, vaccination is the method used to control foot-and-mouth disease.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Newspapers across continental Europe are signalling alarm about the spreading foot and mouth disease in Britain.
Meanwhile, in the Irish Republic, which so far appears clear of foot-and-mouth, further emergency disease prevention legislation came into effect on Friday.
As well as foot-and-mouth, the institute also focuses on diseases in cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, including lumpy skin disease, rinderpest, African swine fever, swine vesicular disease and equine encephalosis.
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