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Early dissemination of foot‐and‐mouth disease virus through sheep marketing in February 2001
Author(s) -
Mansley L. M.,
Dunlop P. J.,
Whiteside S. M.,
Smith R. G. H.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.153.2.43
Subject(s) - livestock , foot and mouth disease , veterinary medicine , epidemiology , foot and mouth disease virus , disease , outbreak , foot (prosody) , medicine , geography , virus , virology , biology , pathology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy
The results of epidemiological investigations suggest that livestock on up to 79 premises, spread widely throughout the British Isles, may have been exposed to infection by foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) virus by the movement of infected sheep before the first case of the disease was confirmed at an abattoir in Essex on February 20, 2001. A further 36 premises may have been infected by this route before the national livestock movement ban was imposed on February 23.