Foot and Mouth -- Uganda
Scientists at the National Agricultural Research Organization have identified a new strain of foot and mouth disease [FMD] virus: a Southern African Territory 3 (SAT 3), which attacks livestock causing lesions in mouth and sore feet and subsequently inhibiting the animals' abilities to eat or move.
The SAT 3 was discovered in a seemingly healthy long-horned Ankole calf that grazed close to buffaloes in western Uganda.
"This calls for heightened surveillance to control spread, because we
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5823131&promed&0
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