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* FMD in Japan ELA letter *Foot-and-mouth cattle 'infected at time of all-clear'
* *Outbreak at second farm confirmed
* * New foot-and-mouth case confirmed
* Reaction of Dr. Paul Sutmoller on article by Sir Brian Follett in Sunday Times
*Stakeholders’ Interests in the use of Science/Technology and Decision Making
*Foot-and-mouth strain identified
*FMD back in Britain by Klaas Johan Osinga
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Cattle at a farm in Surrey have been found to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease

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• “A better way of animal health control, appropriate to the scientifically advanced tools of the 21st Century”
  

  In an attempt to publicise lessons learned, the European Livestock Association, is firmly behind vaccination to live, has written to Dr. Toshiro Kawashima, CVO in Japan (and copied to Dr. Bernard Vallat, OIE, John Dalli, EU Commisioner Health and Consumer Policy and all Members of the European Parliament). The letter is backed by senior British vets and virologists and informed also by the expertise of those closely involved in the swift eradication of FMD in Uruguay in 2001. It makes some urgent recommendations involving vaccination.  Read ELA letter in full. 

• Statement of key conclusions and recommendations by HSE

• Summary Control and eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease

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