Open research
Short analytical pieces on how animal-health markets actually behave. Everything here is free to read, dated, and cited to official source material. None of it is breaking news, and none of it reports client work.
Market structure
A cattle population is not a market. Turning epidemiological need into purchased doses requires a policy decision, a budget line and a procurement process — and each of those can fail independently.
Supply
Installed antigen capacity, catalogue capacity and shippable doses of a matched strain are three different quantities. Confusing them makes shortages look impossible right up to the point they happen.
Strain matching
Knowing that serotype O is circulating tells you which shelf to look at. It does not tell you whether the vaccine on that shelf will protect the animals in front of you.
Evidence & updates
Official material reviewed on 21 September 2026. Descriptions are written here; no third-party text is reproduced. There is no feed, no newsletter sign-up and no automatic update — this list changes when the work does.
Reference laboratory pages listing samples submitted for FMD virus characterisation by country. Used here for serotype signal framing only.
How regional vaccine bank arrangements are structured and triggered — the basis for treating bank markets separately from routine demand.
Guidance on specification, tendering and quality assurance for national veterinary vaccine procurement.
European Commission for the Control of FMD workstream covering support to global FMD control.