Sentences with phrase «mouth disease epidemic»

Moreover, in 2002, the Government produced an Organic Action Plan as part of its Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food, drawn up in response to the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic.

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The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Industry.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

The case triggered widespread media attention in Britain, whose cattle industry was hardest hit by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and was ravaged by a foot - and - mouth epidemic in 2001.