Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals. It exists as seven main strains and over 61 subtypes. The virus can spread through contaminated food, water, air, transportation, and direct contact between infected and uninfected animals at grazing areas. It has a short incubation period of hours to days and the virus can travel long distances through wind. Symptoms include fever, excessive salivation, vesicles in and around the mouth and feet that rupture leaving painful sores. Proper precautions like immediately informing authorities of outbreaks, stopping grazing of animals, and treating infected animals are needed to control the spread.

1. Out Breaks
Foot & Mouth Disease

2. •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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. •Vesicles rupture& leaves red sores
which are painful.
•Off Feed.
•Unable to walk.

8. Lesions

9. Foot and Mouth Disease Lesions

10. Foot and Mouth Disease