Vaccination as a control measure

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is a highly infectious viral disease of cloven hoofed animals. FMD is not transmissible to humans but the disease has major economic consequences.

In the past Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in non-endemic countries have been controlled through the mass culling of infected and in contact animals. New legislation and the development of marker vaccines and test kits allows for the use of vaccination as part of a FMD control strategy.