A report commissioned by the UK government has called for vaccination to be the linchpin of a strategy to curb any future outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
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The inquiry, carried out by the Royal Society, said animals on any farm infected with foot and mouth disease should still be culled, but that healthy animals on neighbouring farms should not. Instead, they should be vaccinated as a “major tool of first resort” to prevent further spread of the disease.
The Royal Society said that better vaccines were necessary, but argued that the rapid culling of animals on infected premises would remain essential. The Society also indicated that the UK should liase closely with its European partners to make sure the necessary emergency vaccination procedures could be in place by the end of 2003.
Although the Royal Society did not recommend routine vaccination, it urged international research groups to investigate “a vaccine that conferred sterile lifelong immunity against all foot-and-mouth strains,” which would globally reduce the threat from the disease, as the BBC reported.
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