NOUN
- acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs
How To Use foot-and-mouth disease In A Sentence
- · Prevent and control the major diseases and parasites of the buffalo: hemorrhagic septicemia, brucellosis, tuberculosis, foot-and-mouth disease, sarcoptic mange, fascioliasis, nematode parasites, rinderpest and 11 Recommendations and Research Needs
- Some are raised even in areas where domestic cattle cannot survive because of afflictions such as trypanosomiasis and foot-and-mouth disease. 5 Chicken
- One of the most prestigious events in the equestrian calendar has become the latest fixture to fall victim to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
- Foot-and-mouth disease is now in its sixth month and almost four million animals in Britain have faced the slaughterman.
- A third example is foot-and-mouth disease, a highly infectious disease that infects cloven-hoofed animals.
- There are already medicines against some picornaviruses, like those which cause polio and foot-and-mouth disease, but so far nothing has worked against a particular kind called the rhinovirus - cause of most runny-nose-type colds.
- Farming wasn't an easy way to make a living 10 years ago, and when foot-and-mouth disease struck the countryside last year, it only got worse.
- It is at this time that our farmers, growers, herdsmen and stockmen are really suffering the pressure of economic damage due to foot-and-mouth disease and other market factors.
- The continued spread of the foot-and-mouth disease has meant the Pasture Masters, who administrate Beverley Westwood, Swinemoor and Figham, have been unable to open up the traditional grazing lands which date back to the 13 th century.
- after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat
