See Also: foot-and-mouth disease(medicine)
foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)(encyclopedia)
Foot and Mouth disease(health)
foot and mouth disease(dictionary)
Foot-and-mouth disease(health)
Disease, hand-foot-and-mouth(health)
foot-and-mouth disease virus(medicine)
hand-foot-and-mouth disease(medicine)
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease(health)
hand-foot-and-mouth disease virus(medicine)

Foot and Mouth disease (health)


Foot-and-mouth disease is a severe, highly communicable viral disease of cattle and swine. It also affects sheep, goats, deer and other cloven-hooved ruminants. The disease is characterized by fever and blister-like lesions followed by erosions on the tongue and lips, in the mouth, on the teats and between the hooves. Many affected animals recover, but the disease leaves them debilitated. It causes severe losses in the production of meat and milk. The disease is caused by a virus. There are at least seven separate types and many subtypes of the FMD virus.