Foot and Mouth -- Worldwide/Unknown
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus spreads much more aggressively in pigs than previous research suggests, according to a new study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
The study, recently published in [Nature's] Scientific Reports, shows that pigs infected with the FMD virus were highly contagious to other pigs just 24 hours after infection, long before showing any clinical signs of infection such as fever and blisters.
FMD continues to be the most important foreign
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6353216&promed&0
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