A reminder to the population on the prevention of FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.
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Foot-and-mouth disease is a viral, acute disease of domestic and wild cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and aphthous lesions of the oral mucosa, skin of the udder and extremities. Cattle and pigs are most often affected, sheep, goats and wild cloven-hoofed animals are less susceptible. Young animals are more susceptible and suffer from the disease more severely than adults. People can also get foot-and-mouth disease.
The causative agent of foot-and-mouth disease is a virus that is not resistant to high temperatures and quickly dies when heated to 60 degrees, exposed to UV rays and conventional disinfectants. Low temperature, high humidity and neutral environment of objects are especially favorable conditions for the preservation of the virus in the external environment. Animals that have recovered from a virus of one type may become ill if infected with a virus of another type.
SOURCE OF DISEASE – sick animals, including those in the incubation (latent) period of the disease, which usually lasts from 1 to 7 days, and sometimes up to 21 days. Such animals release the virus into the external environment with the contents and walls of aphthae, milk, saliva, exhaled air, urine and feces, resulting in contamination of pastures, premises, equipment, water sources, feed, and vehicles. Infection occurs through the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, when eating food and drinking, licking various infected objects.
Individual animals that have recovered from foot-and-mouth disease, as well as those immunized against foot-and-mouth disease and kept together with sick animals, can be virus carriers for a long time and be a potential source of infection.
Transmission of the disease to healthy animals can be carried out through unsterilized products and raw materials obtained from animals sick with foot-and-mouth disease, as well as feed, water, bedding, care items, clothing and footwear of people, vehicles contaminated with excrements of sick animals, on which the foot-and-mouth disease virus can persist for a long time.
There are no special means for the treatment of foot-and-mouth disease. To improve the immunity of animals, you can use complex vitamin preparations, immunomodulators, broad-spectrum antibiotics to suppress opportunistic microflora.
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The main route of infection for people is through raw milk from sick animals and its processed products, less often through meat. Direct transmission of infection (during milking, care, treatment, slaughter), airborne transmission (during breathing, coughing of animals), as well as through objects contaminated with their excrement are possible in persons who are in direct contact with sick animals. The infection is not transmitted from person to person. Children are more susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease than adults.
State Institution “Mendykarinsky district territorial inspection of KVKiN Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, Borovskoye village, Altynsarina str. 83, tel.: 2-40-94