Source: MY SAN ANTONIO, 3/23/17

Livestock producers are seeking $750 million to beef up the nation’s vaccine bank for foot-and-mouth disease, saying an outbreak on U.S. soil would quickly reach epidemic proportions and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in losses to producers of cattle, pork, sheep and other livestock. Foot-and-mouth disease, or FMD, is a highly contagious viral disease that was considered eradicated from the U.S. in 1929, but remains endemic...

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