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About Foot and Mouth Disease
Foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals, in particular cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. Other ruminants including deer and some zoo animals, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, guanaco and vicuña) and elephants can also be affected. The disease is serious for animal health and for the economics of the livestock industry. While FMD is not normally fatal to adult animals, it is debilitating and causes significant loss of productivity; for example milk yields may drop or the animals may become lame. In young animals it can be fatal on a large scale. 
- Commonly Asked Questions - What is it? How is it spread?
- Clinical signs of foot and mouth disease in cattle, pigs and sheep.
- Policy and legislation
Factsheets
- Foot and Mouth Disease factsheet
- How to spot foot and mouth disease (PDF 759 KB)
- Biosecurity – Preventing the introduction and the spread of foot and mouth disease (PDF 593 KB)
- What will happen when foot and mouth disease (FMD) is suspected or confirmed (PDF 693 KB)
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Page last modified: 26 October, 2009