FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1947, Page 5

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

Received Monday, 7 p.m. LOXDON, Xov. 3. The Xational Farniers' Union committee which rei-ently exhaustivelv investigated metliods of controlling and checking outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in countries outside Britain, reported that iiiiimiinsation scliemes such as tliose recently adopted in Denmark do not provide sufficient protection. The committee is Iherefore of opinion that the British poiicy of slaughtering all infected arul like!y-to-be-jnfecled stock, in any area where au outbreak occurs, should contiuue as a safeguard. The Pieliright vaecine produced by the British Ministry of Agriculture laboratories was knowu to conl'er substantial protection against two of the three known tvpes of foot and mouth virus, but was not considered sufli ciently efl'ective to provide complete iinmunisation. Representatives of eleven European countries, who met in Berne this niontli to eonsider proposals to secure greatei unif orini ty in tlie metliods employed in the preparation of various anti-foot and mouth disease vaccines, reconiniended that effort should be nuule to solve outstanding problems of controlling tlie disease by international agreement.