FMD Response SA says government’s vaccination strategy is fundamentally inadequate [SOUND]

# Farmer-led initiative FMD Response SA says the probability of failure under the government’s current foot-and-mouth disease vaccination strategy is between 90 and 95-percent. The government aims to vaccinate 80-percent of the country’s cattle by December. FMD Response SA chairman, Stephen Butt, told Business Day TV that the only way to stop the disease spreading is to ensure the country’s 14-million cattle are vaccinated within a tight timeframe of six to eight weeks to ensure immunity to the virus: