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Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Current Prevention And Detection Efforts Examined
April 11th, 2001
When it strikes cows, pigs, and other livestock, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) rapidly threatens financial disaster for farmers and, potentially, for entire economies. Effective vaccines have been available for decades, but practical concerns have limited their use. A news article in the March 23, 2001, issue of Science examined current prevention, detection, and research efforts to make FMD vaccines more practical. The European Union banned the vaccines in 1992 because vaccinated animals produce the same antibodies as infected livestock, making it impossible to determine when animals are sick. Since immediate...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-04-11)
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