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The cost of disease control may be very high, depending
on the measures employed. For example, the ‘stamping out’ and compensation
policy used by the United Kingdom in the 1967/68 outbreak cost approximately
US $50 million (1967/68 value).
In much the same way that individual managerial flexibility is restricted,
national programmes and policies which have the aims of improving the
livestock of a country and/or changing strategies for animal production
will be similarly disrupted and compromised by outbreaks of FMD. Veterinary
services in other areas will often be neglected in order to deal with
the immediate disease.
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