Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Sir, —The disease might easily spread to New Zealand. For this reason we must be prepared to deal with the problem intelligently. Slaughtering every susceptible species within a radius will lose the very select type we need, the immune individuals that could form the basis of a resistant strain. Eventually the slaughter will have to cease if the spread cannot be confined by slaughter and controlled disposal. In your editorial you did not say whether immune types had been noticed, let alone spared to provide future herds. This principle of natural immunity is well known and forms the basis of natural selection. —Yours, etc., E. J. FREEMAN. November 29, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31540, 30 November 1967, Page 14
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112Foot-and-Mouth Disease Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31540, 30 November 1967, Page 14
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