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2017-06-16 18:42:00| National Hog Farmer

A potential foot-and-mouth disease outbreak would cost the beef, corn, pork and soybean industries alone an estimated $200 billion over 10 years. “The possibility of foot-and-mouth outbreak in the U.S. is the eight-foot gorilla in the room,” says David Henning, National Pork Producers Council vice president. The United States is unprepared for an FMD outbreak. Livestock organizations are taking the lead to be better prepared. The NPPC wants the 2018 farm bill to direct the USDA to: Contract with an offshore, vendor-maintained vaccine bank that would have available FMD antigen concentrate to protect against all 23 of the most common FMD types currently circulating in the world. Maintain a vendor-managed inventory of 10 million doses of vaccine, which is the estimated need for the first two weeks of an outbreak. Contract with an international manufacturer or manufacturers for the surge capacity to produce at least 40 million doses.  

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