Vaccination Guidance

The decision to vaccinate during an FMD or CSF outbreak is complicated. A number of guidance documents are available for reference.

Foot and mouth disease

FMD Vaccine Surge Capacity for Emergency Use in the U.S (January 2014) reviews the challenges of controlling FMD in the U.S. and provides potential solutions to meet the surge capacity need for FMD vaccine in an extensive outbreak.

FAD PReP/NAHEMS Guidelines: Appendix A: Vaccination for Foot-and-Mouth Disease

FMD Vaccination: What Livestock Producers Need to Know

Classical swine fever

FAD PReP/NAHEMS Guidelines: Appendix C: Vaccination for Classical Swine Fever

African swine fever

An African swine fever vaccine is not commercially available at this time.