foot-and-mouth disease
Cloven-hoof viral scourge
Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious viral illness affecting cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
It causes fever and blisters in the mouth and on the feet, leading to lameness and reduced productivity.
Though rarely fatal to adult animals, outbreaks devastate agricultural economies and typically result in mass culling to prevent spread.
The disease does not significantly affect humans but has triggered major international trade restrictions on livestock and meat products.
- footrotBacterial hoof infection in livestock
- antigenicProvoking antibody production
- cloven hoofHoof split in two
- zoonosisAnimal-to-human disease transmission
- mad cowBrain-wasting livestock illness
outbreak · culling · vaccination programs · lesions · blackleg · scrapie · quarantine · swine fever · import restrictions · avian influenza · depopulation · mass burial · funeral pyres · foot rot · cloven-hoofed · smallpox · chickenpox · mastitis
- Enterovirusesenterovirus, poliovirus, rhinovirus, polio
foot-and-mouth diseasehealth
Condition of body, mind
wellness · clean bill of health · herd immunity · animal health
foot-and-mouth diseasedisease eradication
Permanent global elimination of pathogens
foot-and-mouth diseaseglanders
Contagious equine bacterial disease
strangles · anthrax · rabies · brucellosis
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