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- From: Gloria <enquires@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:43:02 +0000
Abigail Woods is a qualified veterinarian undertaking a PhD study at
the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at
Manchester University, where she is working on a Wellcome Trust
project on the history of animal plagues. Here she tells the World
Socialist Web Site her views on the current outbreak of foot and mouth
disease.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/vac-m08.shtml
" Vaccination was never intended for use in Britain except in
emergency situations, i.e. wartime or attack by biological weapons. In
these cases, it was realised the disease may get so out of hand that
slaughter would be impossible. However, the Ministry of Agriculture
were keen for other nations to vaccinate, since this would reduce
disease incidence overseas and therefore the threat of FMD importation
into Britain. The realisation that if farmers knew a vaccination
existed they would lobby for its application in Britain led the
Ministry to keep much of this research secret until the mid 1950s"
" an unpublished paper I have by WHG Rees. Vaccination did markedly
reduce disease in Europe, but by the later 1970s it became clear that
several FMD outbreaks could be linked to the use of vaccines?i.e.
virus escaping from production plants or incomplete inactivation of
virus in the vaccine. In addition, the lower incidence of disease
meant that the economics of vaccination was questionable. The European
Commission therefore strongly advocated slaughter instead of
vaccination. This was not adopted until the formation of the internal
EC market in the early 1990s, when free trade meant that the UK would
no longer be able to prohibit the importation of vaccinated animals,
as had been the case."
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