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SEVERAL papers1–7 have suggested that wind-carried foot and mouth virus (FMV) had helped to spread the disease during the 1967 epidemic. Most of the papers concentrated on the physical aspects of transport and deposition and two of them2,6 inferred that precipitation was involved in depositing the virus and that the deposited virus, which was subsequently ingested by animals, was capable of spreading the infection. Indirect support for this mechanism comes from the work of Chamberlain8.
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NORRIS, K., HARPER, G. Windborne Dispersal of Foot and Mouth Virus. Nature 225, 98–99 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225098a0
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