Foot-and-mouth disease: technical and political challenges to eradication.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly-contagious livestock disease with global socioeconomic ramifications. The disease negatively impacts both individual farmers through reduced herd viability and nations through trade restrictions of animals and animal derivatives. Vaccines for FMD prevention have existed for over 70 years, yet the disease remains enzootic in a large percentage of the globe. FMD persistence is due in part to technical limitations of historic and current vaccine technologies. There also exist many socioeconomic and political barriers to global FMD eradication. Here we highlight the barriers to eradication and discuss potential avenues toward FMD eradication.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.
Mark T
MT
Smith
Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.
Anthony M
AM
Bennett
Plum Island Animal Disease Center, North Atlantic Area, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Greenport, NY, USA.
Marvin J
MJ
Grubman
Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA. Electronic address: bundy@byu.edu.
Bradley C
BC
Bundy
D000818:Animals; D060740:Disease Eradication; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary; D005536:Foot-and-Mouth Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D029544:Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus; D007391:International Cooperation; D058751:Livestock; D014765:Viral Vaccines
D014765:Viral Vaccines
Disease; Foot-and-mouth; Outbreak; Vaccine; Virus