Clinical signs of Foot and Mouth Disease - Sheep
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Plate 17 - Sheeps mouth with two small unruptured vesicles at one day of age. Note blanched, glistening appearance. |
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Plate 18 - Two-day-old lesion on the dental pad and upper gum of a sheep. The margins of the lesion are sharp. |
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Plate 19 - Further examples of two-day-old lesions, in this case on a sheep's tongue |
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Plate 20 - A two-day-old lesion on dental pad of a sheep. |
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Plate 21 - The same sheep as in Plate 20, one day later. Note rapid loss of edge definition of lesion. |
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Plate 22 - Sheep's tongue with two twelve-day-old lesions only discernible by loss of pappilae and indentation of tongue surface. |
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Plate 23 - Sheep's foot with one-day-old unruptured vesicle along the coronary band. Note necessity to reflect hair to view lesion. |
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Plate 24 - Two-day-old lesions in the inter-digital space and along the coronary bands of a sheep's foot. Note blanching and swelling. |
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Plate 25 - Sheep's foot with coronary band vesicles of two-days
of age, one of which has ruptured. |
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Plate 26 - Sheep's foot with two-day-old coronary band lesion. Note the necessity to reflect the hair in order to view the lesion. |
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Plate 27 - Same foot as in Plate 26, one day later i.e. three-day-old lesion. Note sero-fibrinous exudate and swelling. |
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Plate 28 - A four-day-old coronary band lesion on a sheeps foot. Swelling has decreased and signs of early healing are evident. |
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Plate 29 - A six-day-old lesion on the coronary band of a sheeps foot. Note scab formation and rapid rate of healing. |
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Plate 30 - A sheeps foot with a ten-day-old healed coronary band lesion. Note under running of horn tissue. |
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Early FMD ulcer with the remnants of an epithelial flap affecting the mucosa above the dental pad (Credit: Epidemiology team, Carlisle - Crown Copyright) |
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Multiple healing FMD ulcers on tongue and dental pad ulceration (Credit: Epidemiology team, Carlisle - Crown Copyright) |
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Group of lambs with extensive orf lesions affecting the tongue found at the slaughterhouse (Credit: Tim Udall MHS SW Region) |
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Lamb with typical orf lesions on tongue with smaller lesion visible on the mucocutaneous junction of the lip (Credit: Phil Watson VLA Penrith) |
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Ewe with multiple lesions - idiopathic ulcers of lower gum and dental pad (Credit: Phil Watson VLA Penrith) |
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Extensive interdigital ulceration and inflammation due to CODD (Credit: Phil Watson VLA Penrith ) |
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Focal interdigital ulceration in a typical case of CODD with detachment of hoof horn (Credit: Ian Davies VLA Shrewsbury) |
Some of the above images are Crown Copyright. Information on Crown Copyright and the use of this material is available on Defra website.
The first 2 images on this page are taken from the 'Foot
and Mouth Disease Ageing of Lesions' 
(1.3 MB - Please note this is a large file) publication which was revised
in January 2005.
Page last modified:
14 January, 2008