• International Law, Communicable Diseases and the Geopolitical Objective of Minimal Interference with World Trade and Travel: Stephen M. Apatow, Humanitarian Resource Institute Legal Resource Center, 5 May 2003. This articles focuses on the importance of current U.S. State Department Warnings.
• Agricultural Security and Emergency Preparedness: Protecting One of America's Critical Infrastructures. Stephen M. Apatow, HRIBRL Discussion Paper ASEP-2001-12, Humanitarian Resource Institute, December 2001.
• Impact of the Foot and Mouth Epidemic on the Equestrian Industry in the UK - A Reference Point for the United States. Stephen M. Apatow,  HRIBRL Discussion Paper FMDEI-2001-12, Humanitarian Resource Institute, December 2001.

• Proposal to Use Orally Administered Interferon to Prevent and/or Treat Foot-and-Mouth Disease: Cummins, Krakowka,  Hutcheson, Amarillo Biosciences.

• Bioweapons, biodiversity, and ecocide: Dudley, J.P. & M.H. Woodford.  (2002a) Potential effects of biological weapons on biological diversity.  BioScience 52(7): 583-592.
• Bioweapons, bioterrorism, and biodiversity: potential impacts of biological weapons attacks on agriculture and biological diversity. Dudley, J.P. & M.H. Woodford.  (2002b)  Rev. Sci. Tech. Office International Epizooties 21(1). 125-137. April 2002. 
• Effects of war and civil strife on wildlife and wildlife habitats. Dudley, J.P., J.R. Ginsberg, A.J. Plumptre, J.A. Hart, & L.C. Campos.  (2002c) Conservation Biology 16(2): 319-329. 

• Potential Impact of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in California: The role and contribution of animal health surveillance and monitoring services. A detailed study of the industry and the results of economic modeling reported by Javier M. Ekboir in the 123-page volume emphasize the crucial importance of quick detection and immediate control of an outbreak of the disease. Ekboir's results indicate that a few days could make a difference of billions of dollars in control costs, production losses, and quarantined markets. 

• 3.2001: What Lessons Will be learned from Foot and Mouth? A Preliminary Economic Assessment of the 2001 Epidemic  David Harvey: Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing, Universty of Newcastle upon Tyne.  Assessment of a model which is based on a premise that with no control at all, the disease would cost of cost the UK an estimated £1.2billion per year and that the country as a whole could afford a £10billion epidemic once every ten years and still come out ahead in purely monetary terms.

• Observations on the Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak in Cumbria 2001  A Richardson
• Legal and Ethical Issues Arising from the Recent Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak  A Richardson

• The successful control and eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease epidemics in South America in 2001. P. Sutmoller, & R. Casas Olascoaga, Evidence for the Temporary Committee on Foot-andMouth Disease of the European Parlement, Meeting 2 September 2002, Strasbourg. Presented by Dr Paul Sutmoller.
• Control and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease: Paul Sutmoller (Animal Health Consultant, former chief of Laboratories of the Panamerican Foot and Mouth Disease Center PAHO/WHO), Simon S. Barteling (Consultant Veterinary Vaccines, former Head Department FMD Vaccine Development, and Production ID-Lelystad and former Head Community Co-ordinating Institute), Raul Casas Olascoaga (Direct Advisor of the Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Uruguay, former Director of the Panamerican Foot and Mouth Disease Center PAHO/WHO), Keith J. Sumption (Lecturer in International Animal Health, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh), Virus Research 91 (2003) 101-144.
• Culling vs. vaccination: challenging a dogma in veterinary (FMD) science: 

Martin Hugh Jones: Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Public Health 

• Foot & Mouth Disease: The UK Lessons:  Online Slide Presentation - Dr. Martin Hugh-Jones for the 2002 Ontario Veterinary Medical Association Annual Meeting.

• Foot and Mouth Disease: The 2001 Epidemic in the UK: Online Slide Presentation - Dr. Paul Gibbs for the North American Veterinary Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Foot and Mouth Disease in British Deer: The following slides summarise the clinical disease seen in each species and assess the potential role of deer in the epidemiology of FMD during an epidemic in the UK

Additional Resources
 

Research and discussion papers related to biodefense issues, preparedness, response, mitigation and policy can be submitted to s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net