The ‘glowing future’ of FMD research

Foot-and-mouth disease occurs in all countries around the world, having a health and economic impact on pig and other livestock production. A novel method of determining the replication characteristics of the virus is hoping to minimise the future impact of this potentially devastating disease. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a severe, highly infectious disease. FMD is most well known as a disease of cattle, but also affects a plethora of domestic livestock, most notably sheep and pigs in the U