Access to global markets will continue to decrease if the disease is not brought under control.
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A new DA leader will have implications for the party’s relationship with President Cyril Ramaphosa as well as the government of national unity.
Australian livestock farmers see foot-and-mouth disease as an existential threat. A new vaccine offers hope – but not a silver bullet.
Feet are important indicators of viral infections, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders.
Vaccinating livestock against common disease not only improves animal welfare, it’s good for the planet too.
South Africa’s biosecurity breaches signal capacity challenges in farm biosecurity measures and the country’s veterinary and related support services.
Foot-and-mouth disease rarely kills animals, but it leads to production losses and economic knocks.
Indonesia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s been decades in the making – just the latest consequence of biosecurity shortcomings in the region.
New Zealand has ramped up biosecurity measures due to an Indonesian foot and mouth scare, but the disease can have huge impacts well beyond the agricultural economy.
Effective biosecurity involves more than just what happens at the airport. And it doesn’t come cheap.
Michelle Grattan discusses the week in politics, including the threat of foot and mouth disease, the government’s climate bill and the grim economic news ahead.
Foot and mouth disease hasn’t been on our doorstep since the 1980s. Keeping it out of Australia is a new national priority.
Foot-and-mouth disease vaccines have been successful in several parts of the world. But in Tanzania it’s not that easy.
South Africa must adopt traceability systems to effectively control foot and mouth disease.
There’s plenty of evidence that modern swill-feeding would be safe, sustainable, and popular.
Africa’s famous animal migrations are increasingly blocked by fences, erected by farmers to keep their livestock safe from disease. But a new approach aims to deliver healthy beef and healthy wildlife.
Outbreaks of foot and mouth, bluetongue and human Ebola can now be controlled with greater precision and speed.
Hand, foot and mouth disease may not be a public health priority, but parents and caregivers at day-care centres should still be careful about its spread.
A nationwide outbreak of foot and mouth disease; an invasion of a devastating wheat disease; our honeybees completely wiped out. These are just three possible disastrous scenarios facing Australia; they’re…
As Arthur Conan Doyle said, “it is easy to be wise, after the event”. When it comes to infectious diseases, decisions about how to manage and contain them have been traditionally informed by prior experience…
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Lecturer in Informatics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Principal investigator FMD risk management, CSIRO
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Science Director, Biosecurity Flagship, CSIRO
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Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Pathologist, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, NICD, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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CSIRO
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Glasgow
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Lecturer in Infectious Disease Modelling, University of Nottingham
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Chair of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, University of Sydney
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Researcher in Sustainable Food Systems, University of Cambridge
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HoD Production Animal Studies, Senior Lecturer in Animal Disease Control and Primary Animal Health Care, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol