G Darsie | PubMed Health

PubMed2006

[Biological research and security institutes].

The threat of using biological material for ago-bioterrorist ends has risen in recent years, which means that research and diagnostic laboratories, biological agent banks and other institutions authorised to carry out scientific activities have had to implement biosafety and biosecurity measures to counter the threat, while carrying out activities to help prevent and monitor the accidental or intentional introduction of exotic animal diseases. This article briefly sets outthe basic components of biosafety and biosecurity, as well as recommendations on organisational strategies to consider in laboratories that support agro-bioterrorist surveillance and prevention programs.

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PubMed2004

The use of vaccines in South American foot-and-mouth disease eradication programmes.

Since the beginning of organized campaigns in the 1960s, vaccination has been a major component of national FMD control and eradication programmes in South America. Aqueous vaccines were used in the 1960s and 1970s, and the introduction of oil vaccines in the mid 1980s helped to decrease endemism. Bi- and trivalent FMD vaccine production increased from 266 thousand doses in 1967 to 580 million doses in 2002. Currently, over 200 million cattle are vaccinated twice yearly throughout the continent. This massive vaccination programme, along with outbreak and animal movement control, helped eradicate FMD in sizeable areas in the 1990s. Outbreaks in the Southern Cone during 2000/2001 were curbed mostly by repeated massive vaccination of cattle. The Hemispheric FMD Eradication Plan, with its end date of 2009, relies on cyclic vaccinations as a major instrument. Vaccination as the major component will continue until when?

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