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Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 288
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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- tic livestock. The beginning of
the twenty-first century brought the worst outbreak of FMD ever
experienced in England, which had been completely free of the
disease for 33 years. This tragic epidemic, which spread to
Northern Ireland, Scotland, France and the Netherlands with severe
e- nomic consequences, emphasized the need for further research
into better methods for the detection and control of the disease.
FMD is caused by a small RNA virus which is highly contagious and
can survive in meat and other animal products for long periods at
normal pH levels. The virus typically infects cloven-hoofed
animals, including c- tle, goats, pigs and sheep, as well as a wide
range of non-domesticated a- mals in regions of the world where FMD
virus is endemic, such as the Af- can continent. There are seven
recognized serotypes of FMD virus, with numerous subtypes, and as a
consequence vaccine production and administration is complex and a
major debate surrounds every disease outbreak regarding the
relative merits of vaccination as opposed to the slaughter of all
infected animals.
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