Empty Viruses For Control Of Foot-and_Mouth

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 05:30 in Mathematics & Economics

In 2001 there was a massive outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in the United Kingdom.  This caused, in terms of prices at that time £8bn / $13–16bn of loss to the UK economy, and much distress in agricultural communities.  One of the most memorable things of that time was images of cattle and other carcasses being burned. read more

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