Why Steenhuisen’s Strawman on Vaccination Is Misleading and What Can Be Done

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John Steenhuisen has recently framed accelerated FMD vaccination as a dangerous “vaccine free-for-all”, implying that faster vaccination would inevitably lead to chaos, loss of export credibility, and a collapse of traceability. It is an effective political soundbite. It is also misleading.


Silver “solutions” against FMD: What we know, what we don’t know, and where money is best spent

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Amid the growing fear currently brewing in South Africa around the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) situation – with that threat uncomfortably close to our borders – I recently received a question about a “nano-silver” product that people are reaching for as a last hope, because everything else seems to fail.