foot-and-mouth disease

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• As is well known, viruses are contagia which give rise to a large number of the best known illnesses in man, animals and plants, e.g. smallpox, infantile paralysis, influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, mosaic disease (on tobacco plants), etc. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 - Presentation Speech
• Foot-and-mouth disease meant practically no contact with animals last year, so children will be raring to make animal mates.
• The high proportion of new cars on the road and the uncertainty over foot-and-mouth disease have depressed activity in the used car market, dealers said.
• Because of their bovine family ties, cattle and buffalo turn out to be vulnerable to many of the same pathogens, such as foot-and-mouth disease and bovine tuberculosis.
• The foot-and-mouth disease cost British farmers and the tourism industry billions of dollars in 2001.
• Dirty, crowded conditions on factory farms can propagate sickness and disease among the animals, including swine influenza (H1N1), avian influenza (H5N1), foot-and-mouth disease, and mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). Danielle Nierenberg: Global Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Rise
• You are confusing it with foot-and-mouth disease which is caused by an animal picornavirus.
• North Korea last week confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, with its state-run news agency saying that "more than 10,000 heads of draught oxen, milch cows and pigs have so far been infected with the diseases and thousands of them died. Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid
• The Government has bowed to pressure for an inquiry into the foot-and-mouth disease crisis and admitted lessons have to be learned.
• Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom.