OpinionSA is asking the wrong FMD question:
Eighty percent vaccinated over a year is not the same as 80% immune at a point in time. Only a second booster can stop ...
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state of being insusceptible or resistant to a noxious agent or process
infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals and caused by apthovirus
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