An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease cost the UK billions in 2001, so how can Australia keep it out?

Estimates of the economic costs of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak are as high as $50 billion.  (ABC Rural: Jodie Gunders)

In the winter of 2001, acrid plumes of smoke rose from the British countryside as millions of cows, sheep and pigs were incinerated in a desperate war against foot-and-mouth disease. 

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