Foot and Mouth Disease Flashcards
What is a FAD?
What is the OIE
What is the OIE List A?
What are the OIE listed Cattle Viral diseases?
What are the vesicular Diseases and their outbreak years?
How are the Vesicular diseases related?
What is Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
Is FMD responsible for Human Hand foot and mouth disease?
What are the characteristics of FMDV
What are some common misconceptions of FMD?
If FMD is not very lethal why is it such a concern?
Why is FMD so contagious?
How is FMD transmission?
- Animals can become infected through inhalation, ingestion, and through reproduction
- Primary mechanism within herds is by direct contact (inhalation of virus aerosols
- Under right conditions, long distance spread of FMD by wind-borne virus can occur
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Movement of infected animals is the most common method of spread between herds
- other sources include contaminated vehicles, equipment, people and animals products
How stable is FMDV?
What are common questions about FMD spread?
What are the different types of hosts for FMDV
Are horses affected by FMD?
NO
What type of host are pigs for FMD?
What animals are indicator hosts for FMD?
Cattle
What are the Clinical signs of FMD?
How does FMD progress in an animal?
In Taiwan 1997 what caused pigs to die from FMD?
How does FMD appear in sheep
What are the maintenance hosts for FMD?
What samples need to be collected from FMD cases?
What is the National Animal Health Laboratory network (NAHLN)
How is FMD prevented/controlled?
What is the “stamping out” policy? How effective are vaccines for FMD?
What are teh issues with the FMD vaccine?
When should FMD be suspected?
What are teh DDx for FMD?
What are the important points of FMD/Vesicular diseases
