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      Managing an animal health emergency in Taipei China: foot and mouth disease.

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          Taipei China had been free from foot and mouth disease (FMD) over 68 years before the disease occurred in March 1997. The first suspected case was recorded on a pig farm in the Hsinchu Prefecture on 14 March 1997. Based on clinical signs, gross histopathological findings, and results of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction tests, diagnosis of FMD was confirmed by the Taiwan Animal Health Research Institute on 19 March 1997 and was reconfirmed by the FMD World Reference Laboratory in Pirbright (United Kingdom), on 25 March 1997. By the end of July 1997, 6,147 pig farms (about a quarter of the pig farms in Taipei China), were affected. The disease was well under control within two months by means of stamping-out and blanket vaccination. The Government purchased 21 million doses of inactivated oil-adjuvant FMD vaccine, which allowed for two injections per pig and one injection of other cloven-hoofed animals. Before the vaccine was used, the stamping-out policy was implemented, ensuring that all pigs in the affected farms were destroyed. After blanket vaccination, a partial stamping-out policy was adopted, i.e. only pigs showing clinical signs were destroyed.

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          Journal
          Rev. - Off. Int. Epizoot.
          Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics)
          0253-1933
          0253-1933
          Apr 1999
          : 18
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Animal Industry Department, Council of Agriculture, Taiwan, Taipei, China.
          Article
          10190214
          00901686-0921-48ad-9878-06215e30e29c
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