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Article: FMD effort is building.(Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot & Mouth Disease )
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- Feedstuffs
- Article date:
- February 27, 2006
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Key Points
* Effort is final step in ending FMD in Western Hemisphere.
* Goal includes preventing FMD entry or reintroduction.
CURRENT foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in Argentina and Brazil are evidence of what animal disease experts have said for years: There is a need for a hemispheric effort to make North and South America the first FMD-free region in the world.
Illinois pork producer Phil Bradshaw, past president of both the U.S. Animal Health Assn. and the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, is among industry and government leaders in North and South America who have thrown their energy into just such a project.
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