Commercial companies can make them too. Questioned on whether it was too late now for vaccination he said that he would still do it especially in the hot spots. The infection will go on popping up - you do not know where. This was due to the sheep having had it for much longer than previosuly thought. Animals shed virus days before you can see symptoms.
Cattle shed huge amounts.
And in the '68 epidemic when cattle moved out to spring pasture they were very prone to infection from the soil due to FMD in it from sheep wintered previously. This was a threat that could be easily averted by vaccination. Prevention was better than cure. Fred Brown stated that he was in favour of a move towards mass vaccination because it had been shown over the years to be the very best way to tackle any type of virus - human or animal. Ruth Watkins and Jim Hutchinson both agreed.