Gucci_b
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Horses are resistant to FMD infection themselves, but can spread infection by carrying virus on tack, their body, or mud on their hooves from an infected area to an uninfected area.
What you need to know
Foot-and-mouth disease is a viral disease which can affect cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats as well as wild and domestic cloven-hooved animals.
It causes fever, followed by blisters in the mouth and on the feet.
The virus can spread through the air and can travel very long distances given the right conditions.
Heat, sunlight and disinfectants help to destroy the virus. Cold and darkness tend to keep it alive.
The virus is highly contagious to some animals and causes serious production losses to farmers.
How is foot-and-mouth disease transmitted?
Animals pick up the virus by:
Contact with infected animals
Contact with other contaminated materials (e.g. mud)
From foodstuff contaminated by the virus
Meat from the carcass of animals infected at the time of slaughter can also carry the virus.
Cattle trucks, lorries, market places, loading ramps and roads may also become contaminated.
Anyone who has been near a diseased animal can spread the disease.
Dogs, cats, horses, poultry, wild game and vermin can also carry infected material.
Horses are resistant to FMD infection themselves, but can spread infection by carrying virus on tack, their body, or mud on their hooves from an infected area to an uninfected area.
What you need to know
Foot-and-mouth disease is a viral disease which can affect cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats as well as wild and domestic cloven-hooved animals.
It causes fever, followed by blisters in the mouth and on the feet.
The virus can spread through the air and can travel very long distances given the right conditions.
Heat, sunlight and disinfectants help to destroy the virus. Cold and darkness tend to keep it alive.
The virus is highly contagious to some animals and causes serious production losses to farmers.
How is foot-and-mouth disease transmitted?
Animals pick up the virus by:
Contact with infected animals
Contact with other contaminated materials (e.g. mud)
From foodstuff contaminated by the virus
Meat from the carcass of animals infected at the time of slaughter can also carry the virus.
Cattle trucks, lorries, market places, loading ramps and roads may also become contaminated.
Anyone who has been near a diseased animal can spread the disease.
Dogs, cats, horses, poultry, wild game and vermin can also carry infected material.
