Source: Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 8/24/17

Livestock organizations are working hard to have included in the 2018 farm bill funding for a foot and mouth disease vaccine bank.  North Carolina’s State Veterinarian, Dr. Doug Meckes explains that the vaccines that would be available would be reactive, not proactive:“In the event of the identification of a foot and mouth disease outbreak, a containment area would be established around the central infected zone."

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