What are the symptoms of foot and mouth disease?

Answer 1

There is no specific teatment for foot and mouth disease. There are vaccines available but there are limitations to its use. This is mainly because the virus is continuously mutating so different stains are being produced. Whereas the developement time for a vaccine against these new strains is 4 months. For this reason many counties decide to destroy all infected, and animals that have been incontact with these animals.

Answer 2

Foot and mouth disease (often abbreviated FMD) is a contagious viral disease of cloven-hooved animals. The symptoms are fairly similar across the affected species (pigs, sheep, goats, cattle): vesicles/blisters/ulcers in the oral cavity and around the coronary band just above the keratinaceous hoof; affected animals typically have a moderate fever, decreased feed and water consumption, and signs of general malaise (lethargy, mental dullness, decreased reaction to external stimuli). In a naive population, infection rates will approach 100%, although mortality rates tend to be less than 5%.

Answer 3

For livestock it usually means culling. For wild animals it usually means they get sick and then recover. The disease is rarely fatal.

The disease primarily affects cloven animals.