Out Breaks

Foot & Mouth Disease

•Precautions & Duties

Inform immediately to higher Officer

Do not inform orally.

Collect information about the suspected Disease.

Symptoms

Mortality, if any.

Contact Sirpanch & tell him to report about the

out break to Animal Husbandry Dept.in writing.

Immediately stop the grazing of domestic cattle's

in Forest area to avoid contact.

Easy to treat Domestic animals but goes very

difficult to treat wild animas.

Highly Contagious Viral Disease.

All cloven footed animals are

susceptible.

Types—Seven types of strains.

O,A,C,SAT1,SAT2,SAT3 &ASIA1

More than 61sub types of main

types are present.

Infection Route•Contaminated food & water.

•By Air.

•Mechanically by transportation media,

•Milk man & wild life gets infection at

•Common grazing places in the forest.

•Virus is present in the saliva before

•Vesicle forms.

•Wild animals acts as a reservoir of

Virus.

•Enzootic in India

Incubation Period

Few hours to few days.

Air born infection.

Virus can travel up to 40 km along the

wind in favorable condition of the

wind.

Symptoms

•Pyrexia

•Profuse salivation. Saliva

dribbles in strings.

•Vesicles in mouth.

•Vesicles on tongue, mucosa

of lips, dental pad, Gums,

cheeks & hard palate.

•Also in the cleft of hoof.

•Vesicles rupture& leaves red sores

which are painful.

•Off Feed.

•Unable to walk.

Lesions

Foot and Mouth Disease Lesions

Foot and Mouth Disease