- Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) is a viral vesicular disease of cloven-hoofed animals.
- FMD is the most contagious animal disease.
- FMD is a trans-boundary disease with regional and global dimensions.
- FMD causes serious production losses and a major constraint to international trade in livestock products Mortality occurs in young stock particularly lambs and piglets and vulnerable animals.
- It negatively affects the fertility rate.
- The main reservoirs of the virus are buffalo and cattle.