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Foot-and-mouth disease caused by serotype SAT2 in Egypt and Libya: a regional concern for animal health in North Africa and the Middle East

Year of publication 2012

Pages 7p.

Author Lockhart, C.;Sumption, K.;Pinto, J.;Lubroth, J.;Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (series)

Series title EMPRES Watch

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is perhaps the most contagious animal diseases and therefore one of the most important transboundary animal diseases. Economic losses caused by FMD include reduction in production parameters such as decreases in milk production, weight gain, reproductive inefficiencies and death in young ruminants and swine. In addition affected animals cannot work the land "tilling for instance" or pumping water to irrigate fields, or transport of agricultural to harvest. The costs of prevention and control with restrictions in both local and international trade are high thereby affecting food security and livelihoods along the production and marketing chain...

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