Image: courtesy of FF Plus If anything underscores the inadequacy of government's response to the foot-and-mouth disease crisis, it is last week’s proud announcement that the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) was able to provide 12 900 doses of vaccine. It was not always like this. Until 2010, there was no question about it: the country had the capacity to successfully curb any incidence of this notorious disease. The ARC’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI) securely
