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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including all breeds of cattle.
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South Africa’s ongoing foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, which has disrupted livestock farming and exports since 2024, has prompted urgent efforts to secure vaccines. A controversy has emerged over the procurement of Bioaftogen, a vaccine produced by Argentina’s Biogénesis Bagó.
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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.
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In a scathing critique of the Department of Agriculture’s handling of South Africa’s Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) crisis, ActionSA MP Athol Trollip lamented the government’s centralised control of the outbreak.
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In the past year the world has been overwhelmed with rapidly emerging, important and fascinating information regarding SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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.
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