Work of Uruguayan veterinarians in foot-and-mouth disease control activities in official bodies

Part I: Introduction

Abstract

It is known that since the mid-1990s, after little more than two decades of application of a program to combat foot-and-mouth disease based on the systematic vaccination of cattle, supplemented with various types of health measures, which in a certain period also included vaccination of sheep, the clinical disappearance of the disease has been achieved and with it the subsequent inclusion of Uruguay in the category of country free of foot-and-mouth disease, with vaccination ...