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2001 IN CONTEXT
Nature 414, 839-840 (20 December 2001) | doi:10.1038/414839b
Animal health: The killing fields
Jim Giles
British farmers have grown used to tough times. But nothing could have prepared them for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) that took a cull of almost 4 million animals to eradicate.
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