Symptoms of Foot and mouth disease

  • Symptoms vary between species, but in general, the animals develop a fever and may get blisters in their mouths, feet and even on their teats.

  • Sick animals lose their appetites resulting in no weight gain and decreased milk production.

Photographs taken by ID-Lelystad, The Netherlands
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cow with FMD tongue lesions FMD lesions on the claw teat leasion - cow infected with FMD virus
Lesions on the tongue and in the mouth
of a cow infected with FMDV

 Lesions on the claw of a cow
infected with FMDV 		Vesicle on the teat of a cow
infected with FMD Virus
FMD leasions - pig hooves FMD vesicle on pig nose FMD lesions on tongue and in mouth of a goat
FMD lesions on the hooves
of a pig 		Vesicles on the nose of a pig
infected with FMDV 		FMD lesions on the tongue and in the mouth of a goat. This was the first recorded case of Foot and Mouth Disease in The Netherlands during the outbreak of February 2001.