Originally from: lina
                        

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Yes you are right!

Both a vaccine and a test are already there and they
are all we have at the moment but they are not good
enough!

Well i would have to say they are more then good
enough.

As was explained in the Press Release –

...Dr David Paton from the Institute for Animal
Health says,c
"Currently available FMD vaccines can protect
animals from becoming sick but not from becoming
infected with the virus. In addition they require
several days to confer protection.

No this is not correct, the new developed vaccine can
protect the animals from becoming infected with the
virus. The only thing that has not yet been solved is
cross contamination, this is something they are yet
still unable to detect. This could happen when a
already contaminated animal is vaccinated.

“In five years we aim to deliver more effective FMD
vaccines and sophisticated diagnostic tests which
will ensure a longer duration of immunity and that
vaccinated animals are not confused with infected
animals.

This is something that can already be done, it has
been tested in several field operations, one in a
persistently infected African buffalo herd.

Vaccination would then become a more acceptable
option for control of an outbreak in traditionally
disease-free areas, like Europe. This would mean
that, instead of having to slaughter millions of
animals simply because they are suspected of being
infected, a vaccination program could be an
alternative method of controlling the spread of the
disease."

If there is only a suspicion of fmd there would/can be
no need to slaughter.

I hope you enjoy the link to Dr. Jeggo's address to
the graduates. I think much of what he says is
actually very relevant to the proposed research
program and the sharing of info.

I will take a look and see what it says. Most of the
research is done by:
Daniel T. Haydona, Armanda D. Bastosb, Nick J.
Knowles, and Alan R. Samuel
Of which Nick J Knowles and Alan R Samuel have written
several reports.
Also there have been a lot of DNA testing and research
done by:
Nick J. Knowles; Alan R. Samuel; Paul R. Davies; R.
Paul Kitching; R. Venkataramanan; Toru Kanno; Alexei
V. Scherbakov; Vladimir V.Drygin; Qi-Zu Zhao and
Qing-Ge Xie.