Mitch Cooper

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Talking Dairy · Foot-and-mouth disease travel risk and simple biosecurity tips | Ep. 130 · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

We've serotyped it.

We know it's the strain.

We need some vaccine made up for this.

We can basically get access to a whole pile of doses very quickly.

If we didn't have a vaccine bank, the amount of time it would take us to approach a vaccine manufacturer and get vaccine into New Zealand would be months.

And we're sort of cutting that down to weeks by having a vaccine bank.

So the ability to use that and use that rapidly is really, really critical.

What that does is it sort of just helps to prevent the spread.

It does a really good job of preventing clinical illness and it does a really good job at sort of reducing transmission.

It doesn't prevent transmission, but it sort of can reduce transmission.

And foot and mouth disease animals are very, very high virus producers.

They're absolutely dumping out virus constantly from their systems.

And vaccinated animals, that is a much, much smaller issue.

So it stops the spread much more effectively than no vaccine would.

But one of the issues is that the vaccine only works for a relatively short period of time.

The immunity degrades pretty rapidly within a couple of months.

So we need to sort of make sure, you know, A, we're using it and we're keeping on top of it, but we might need to keep using it for a wee while, depending on how New Zealand's eradication strategy goes.

In the perfect world, it sort of just buys us a little bit more time to get on top of things quicker and easier and stop the spread from happening from a central point.

It buys us, I guess, a tool for disease eradication that we wouldn't otherwise have if we didn't have a vaccine bank.

And, you know, the more tools we have available to us, the better we're able to respond.

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