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Smith and Hugh-Jones1 and Wright2 have considered the spread of foot and mouth disease in terms of the aerial dissemination and deposition, particularly in rain, of virus-carrying particles. This communication refers to recent experimental work on deposition and draws analogies from the Windscale accident3,4 which took place shortly after the original calculations5 referred to by Smith and Hugh-Jones were made. I consider only the physical factors of travel and uptake, and do not discuss the viability of the virus and its infectivity by various routes of entry.
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CHAMBERLAIN, A. Deposition and Uptake by Cattle of Airborne Particles. Nature 225, 99–100 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225099a0
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