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Local companies to be asked to make foot-and-mouth disease vaccines

Agricultural Research Council cannot meet demand, Minister of Agriculture tells Parliament

South Africa needs about 25-million doses of foot-and-mouth disease vaccines annually. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee

Private companies are to be asked to make foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines, agriculture minister Willie Aucamp told Parliament on Tuesday.
The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) manufactures an FMD vaccine but cannot meet demand.
Aucamp said 21-million doses have been imported or produced this year, mostly from Turkey and Argentina.

Minister of Agriculture Willie Aucamp announced in Parliament on Tuesday that South African private companies will be asked to make foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines.
South Africa is in the midst of its biggest ever FMD epidemic. It has cost the cattle industry billions of rands.
The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) manufactures an FMD vaccine. But it…

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