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Published online 23 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021223-1
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Foot-and-Mouth would have jumped fence
Vaccine model suggests a shot in the rump is worth two in the head.
Ring-fence vaccination would not have halted Britain's devastating 2001 epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a new analysis suggests1.
Blanket prophylactic vaccination or targeting high-risk farms first are the best ways to avert or minimize future outbreaks of FMD, say the report's authors, Matthew Keeling of the University of Warwick, UK, and colleagues.
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