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Russia: A new type of foot and mouth disease was found in the village of Molodezhny

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Clin­i­cal signs char­ac­ter­is­tic of foot and mouth dis­ease (FMD) have been found in 270 head of cat­tle and eight pigs in the vil­lage of Molodezh­nyin Pri­an­gursky district.

More than 190 head of cat­tle and eight pigs have fallen ill with FMD in the vil­lage of Molodezhny. Deaths among ani­mals were not reg­is­tered. It was reported, that Vladimir Mishchenko, chief researcher of the Lab­o­ra­tory and Pre­ven­tion of Dis­eases of Pigs and Cat­tle of the All-Russian Sci­en­tific Research Insti­tute of Ani­mal Dis­eases, doc­tor of vet­eri­nary Sci­ences, arrived spe­cially in our region for the epi­zootic survey.

Accord­ing to Mishchenko, the dis­ease in the vil­lage is local­ized. “It is nec­es­sary to say, that all ani­mals have dis­ease in the mild form, because they had already been vac­ci­nated and have immu­nity. How­ever, the prob­lem was that for the first time the causative agent of foot and mouth dis­ease, which has not pre­vi­ously been reg­is­tered in our coun­try, has been iden­ti­fied as Type A — the genetic line typ­i­cal in South-East Asi­a­has been revealed dur­ing lab­o­ra­tory stud­ies. Prior to this, such a virus was found only in Korea, Thai­land and Viet Nam,” he said.

At the present time the spe­cial­ists are inves­ti­gat­ing how this type of foot and mouth dis­ease virus was brought to the ter­ri­tory of Rus­sia, and more pre­cisely in the Trans-Baikal region. “Mul­ti­ple ver­sions were inves­ti­gated, but for this day there is no spe­cific infor­ma­tion about where this dis­ease came from. Humans and ani­mals may be car­ri­ers. There are a lot of ways of trans­fer, so to estab­lish them is dif­fi­cult, but the fact is that the dis­ease was recorded in the region absolutely,” said the head of the office of Rosselkhoz­nad­zor for the Zabaykalsky region and the Amur region, Niko­lai Gantimuranov.

At the moment, accord­ing to the experts, the main work is to pre­vent the pen­e­tra­tion of dis­ease into the envi­ron­ment, and to pro­vide clin­i­cal inspec­tion in other areas in order to exclude the occur­rence there of foot and mouth dis­ease. It is planned to orga­nize a dou­ble vac­ci­na­tion of ani­mals. Dis­in­fec­tion is being pro­vided at check­points, and explana­tory work goes on among the population.

(ProMED 4/4/2013)

Control of foot-and-mouth disease during 2010–2011 epidemic, South Korea

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Park J-H, Lee K-N, Ko Y-J, et al. Emerg Infect Dis. April 2013. doi:10.3201/eid1904.121320.
Avail­able at http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/4/12-1320_article.htm

Abstract. An out­break of foot-and-mouth dis­ease caused by serotype O virus occurred in cat­tle and pigs in South Korea dur­ing Novem­ber 2010–April 2011. The high­est rates of case and virus detec­tion were observed 44 days after the first case was detected. Detec­tion rates declined rapidly after culling and com­ple­tion of a national vac­ci­na­tion program.

China (Liaoning): Foot-and-mouth disease reported in the Northeast

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Foot-and-mouth dis­ease (FMD) infec­tions have been con­firmed in live­stock in north­east China’s Liaon­ing Province, the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture announced 24 Novem­ber 2012.

A total of 43 pigs at a farm in Erdao Vil­lage in Dalian City of Liaon­ing, showed symp­toms asso­ci­ated with FMD on 19 Novem­ber 2012, the min­istry said. The National FMD Ref­er­ence Lab­o­ra­tory, after test­ing sam­ples col­lected at the farm, con­firmed on 24 Novem­ber 2012, that the pigs were infected with FMD virus serotype O. Local author­i­ties have sealed off and dis­in­fected the affected area to pre­vent the dis­ease from spreading.

The full arti­cle may be accessed at http://www.promedmail.org/direct.php?id=20121125.1423689
(ProMED 11/25/2012)