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Science 20 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5516, p. 410
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5516.410
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Intensified Battle Against Foot and Mouth Appears to Pay Off

Martin Enserink

In late March, three teams of epidemiologists took their latest computer model results on foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which showed that Britain's attempts to control the disease weren't working, to the British government. In response, the government adopted a more aggressive campaign to stamp out the catastrophic outbreak--a strategy that seems to be paying off. Meanwhile, as data on the economic costs of the outbreak emerge, FMD experts in other countries are reassessing whether the no-vaccination policy adopted by the European Union still makes sense.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Dynamics of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal in a Heterogeneous Landscape.
M. J. Keeling, M. E. J. Woolhouse, D. J. Shaw, L. Matthews, M. Chase-Topping, D. T. Haydon, S. J. Cornell, J. Kappey, J. Wilesmith, and B. T. Grenfell (2001)
Science 294, 813-817
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