Abstract
When foot and mouth disease is sporadic or exotic it can be controlled – although only at great expense – by the drastic slaughter of infected herds. When it is endemic, however, vaccines are necessary for control but the production and use of these is complicated by the great antigenic variability displayed by the virus.
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