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To: Challo Jeregy who wrote (19486)	3/13/2002 3:00:22 PM
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What is Hoof-and-Mouth Disease (HMD)? Foot-and-mouth disease is a severe, highly communicable viral disease of cattle and swine. It also affects sheep, goats, deer, and other cloven–hoofed ruminants. Symptoms of FMD include blisters around the mouth or on the feet, excessive drooling, reduced appetite, and lameness. Animals may attempt to walk on their knees. The disease itself is characterized by fever and blister-like lesions followed by erosions on the tongue and lips, in the mouth, on the teats, and between the hooves. Many animals recover, but the disease leaves them debilitated. It causes severe losses in production of meat and milk. Because it spreads widely and rapidly and because it has grave economic and clinical consequences, FMD is one of the animal diseases that livestock owners dread most. The U.S. has been free of FMD since 1929.