{"id":227089,"date":"2026-05-20T12:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=227089"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:54:33","slug":"biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=227089","title":{"rendered":"BIOSECURITY: Vaccination delays expose inefficiencies in SA\u2019s FMD response system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2.5 million foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine doses have landed on South African soil since late February, with millions more scheduled. The government is footing the bill, the storage facilities are prepared and the roll-out is under way. Yet on farms across the country, frustration is mounting because the distance between a dose in a warehouse and a needle in an animal turns out to be longer and more complicated than most realised&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2.5 million foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine doses have landed on South African soil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system.jpg",1792,1149,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-300x192.jpg",300,192,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-768x492.jpg",640,410,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-1024x657.jpg",640,411,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-1536x985.jpg",1536,985,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system.jpg",1792,1149,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-1024x657.jpg",1024,657,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/227089-biosecurity-vaccination-delays-expose-inefficiencies-in-sas-fmd-response-system-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}