Foot and mouth disease/ FMD
• Family Picornaviridae
• All domestic cloven-hoofed animals are susceptible, including cattle, pigs,
sheep, goats, and buffalo, deer, antelope, wild pigs, elephant, giraffe, and
camelids.
• Airborne, especially temperate zones (up to 60 km overland and 300 km
by sea)
• Humans can harbour FMDV in their respiratory tract for 24–48 hours,
leading to the common
• Practice of 3-5 days of personal quarantine for personnel exposed in
research facilities.
• Direct contact between infected and susceptible animals
• Control measure: slaughter of infected, recovered, and FMD-susceptible contact animals