Towards global foot and mouth disease control

摘要

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) remains one of the world’s most widespreadepizootic animal diseases. More than 100 countries are not yet recognised asofficially free of FMD by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).FMD is a disease of large domestic and wild animals. While it does notcause the same heavy mortalities as other epizootics, it generates significanteconomic losses worldwide, in particular by sharply reducing milk and meatproduction in infected farms. Most affected animals fail to return to normalproductivity even when cured.