Foot and mouth disease: the human consequences

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7286.565

BMJ 2001;322:565-566 ( 10 March )

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Foot and mouth disease: the human consequences

The health consequences are slight, the economic ones huge

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The current major outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) is the latest in a series of disasters that are putting Britishagriculture under stress.¹ The disease affects all cloven-hoofedanimals and is the most contagious of animal diseases. It is causedby a virus of the family Picornaviridae, genus Aphthovirus, ofwhich there are seven serotypes (O, A, C, SAT1, SAT2, SAT3, andAsia1). The current outbreak in the United Kingdom is due to thehighly virulent pan-Asiatic serotype O.¹ In animals the diseasepresents with acute fever, followed by the development of blisterschiefly in the mouth and on the feet. Infected animals secretenumerous virus particles before clinical signs appear.²

Foot and mouth disease is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible to humans, but it crosses the species barrier with difficultyand with little effect. Given the high incidence of the diseasein animals, both in the past . . . [Full text of this article]

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