Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a severe and highly contagious viral infection that affects cattle, swine, sheep, goats, water buffalo, and other ruminants. Wild pigs, boar, deer, and giraffes can also contract FMD. FMD was the first disease for which the World Organisation for A...
Foot and mouth disease is a highly infectious virus which can be picked up by us on our boots, clothes and cars and carried many miles. By staying away from farmland, by keeping off any footpaths through or next to farms or open land with livestock, we can help the efforts to eradicate...
Foot and mouth disease causes heavy economic losses due to reduced production, reproduction and draught power. The livestock rearing prospects are dampened by the occurrence of such dreadful disease which is ranking first on economic ground (Chakrabarti, 1997). An attempt was made to find out the...
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THE WESTERN CAPE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY WORKING TOGETHER AGAINST FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE: KNOW YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WHEN MOVING LIVESTOCK IN SOUTH AFRICA Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is a highly contagious and painful viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs that...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been recognized in printed records dating from the sixteenth century, and since the eradication of rinderpest (cattle plague) in the early part of the twentieth century it has been rec- nized as the most important and feared disease of cattle and other dom-...
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is an acute infectious animal disease that attacks cattle, buffalo, goats, sheep, horses and pigs with a transmission rate of 90-100 percent and very high economic losses. Clinical signs of FMD include high fever, excessive mucus from the mouth and foaming; sores...
foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)— 口蹄疫 hand foot and mouth disease, HFMD, caused by a number of intestinal viruses, usually affecting young children— human hand foot and mouth disease, a viral infection— 手足口症 也可见: foot名—
Wekesa SN, Muwanika VB, Siegismund HR, Sangula AK, Namatovu A, et al. (2013) Analysis of recent serotype O foot-and-mouth disease viruses from livestock in Kenya: evidence of four independently evolving lineages. Transbound Emerg Dis....
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is generally caused by coxsackievirus A-16, which is a member of the enterovirusfamily. There are other types of enteroviruses that can cause the symptoms as well, but these are less common. Children usually become infected with the virus from other children in...