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Dealing with footand-mouth disease

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is perhaps one of the costliest and the most disruptive animal diseases in livestock farming, and as such it warrants everyone being extra vigilant to mitigate the risk before devastating outbreaks take place.

The Ruminant Veterinary Association of South Africa has compiled an emergency plan with health management actions to be taken in the event that a case

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