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FMD (foot and mouth disease) is a viral disease of cloven-hooved animals that causes blisters in the mouth and around the coronary band. FMD is found in these animals because the virus is trophic (specific) for the cell markers exhibited on the cells of the mouth and coronary band in cloven-hooved animals.
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What is FMD?
FMD is foot and mouth disease!
What is hoof and mouth disease?
Hoof and Mouth, also called Foot and Mouth Disease (or FMD for short) is a highly contagious disease that can be spread to any and all cloven animals that come into contact with the pathogens for FMD. FMD is characterized by blisters or lesions that are found on and in the mouth, feet, and genitalia. Such lesions make it very painful for the animal to move around or eat anything. FMD is mostly spread by contact with other animals from unwashed or undisinfected tools, clothing or vehicles, but can also be spread through the air. The disease itself is not fatal, nor is it any concern to human health, but it is a serious concern as far as livestock productivity is concerned. Animals that get FMD decrease in productivity as far as meat and milk is concerned because of these painful blisters on their feet and in their mouths, and the only way to get rid of the disease is by strict quarantine and humane slaughter of not only animals that have FMD, but also those that are carriers or have a high risk of contracting the disease. Please see the related link below for more info.
In what year did First Marblehead Corporation - The - FMD have its IPO?
First Marblehead Corporation (The) (FMD)had its IPO in 2003.
What is the market cap for First Marblehead Corporation - The - FMD?
As of July 2014, the market cap for First Marblehead Corporation (The) (FMD) is $61,409,565.12.
Can cows recover from foot and mouth disease?
Yes, and most cows will recover from foot and mouth disease (FMD). This disease is mostly economic in its impact - in an endemically infected herd (one that routinely has FMD circulating), generally around 98% of the animals who get infected will recover in a couple of weeks. In a naive herd (one that has not been exposed to FMD), you will see a slightly larger mortality rate, but still have a survival rate over 90%.
What small tubes within your lungs?
Fmd
What is the price for FMD watch 193?
12.88 at walmart
Why cull animals with foot and mouth disease if it does not infect humans?
Because it will spread rapidly among animals causing suffering! It does spread rapidly and cause varying levels of suffering depending on the age and species of the animal effected. However my Farm Welfare lecture told my class last year that having FMD in a population of livestock makes the animals worthless as no one will want to buy them. While a vaccine could be used to inoculate the population it is impossible, when screening animals, to tell the difference between vaccinated animals and those which have survived FMD or have contracted the disease and are no yet showing symptoms. Thus the only way to make the livestock population profitable is to cull any animals with the disease, although it is not always fatal.
What problem can foot and mouth disease cause?
Foot and Mouth Disease causes vesicles (kind of like very nasty blisters) on the muzzle, tongue, teats and skin above the hooves of animals. It affects any and every cloven-hooved mammal (from cattle to pigs to sheep and even deer, bison and antelope). It is VERY infectious, but it is rarely fatal (it usually only kills young animals). However though the disease is rarely fatal, it is a disease that spreads very rapidly and can only be contained by quarantining the animals and humanely euthanizing all animals that are affected, are carriers, or that have been exposed to the virus and are not showing symptoms yet. The disease is caused by a picornavirus which is spread via contact with other animals and through the air (an airborne virus). The virus being airborne is how many livestock in Great Britain got infected with FMD so quickly, since most farms were close in proximity with each other and the winds could easily spread the virus from one farm to another. FMD causes animals to reduce feed intake, decrease in fertility and milk production, and reduces growth rates in young stock. Even if an animal recovers from the FMD virus, they are still potential carriers and tend to not be as productive as they were before they were severely infected with this virus. Most animals need to be humanely slaughtered, burned and buried to kill and contain this horrendous disease. There is a vaccine available for livestock with FMD, but it's reliability is pretty much worthless, to say the least, since the vaccine is made for only one common species of virus, and not for the other subspecies of viruses that are associated with causing this disease. FMD is not to be confused with the human-form of Foot, Hand and Mouth Disease. FMD is not zoonotic, so it cannot be transferred from animal to human and vice versa. Rather FHMD is an altogether-different disease that affects humans only.
What does the bible say about animals have cloven hooves?
Lev:11:3: Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Lev:11:7: And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. Lev:11:26: The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean. Deut:14:7: Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
What is the symbol for First Marblehead Corporation - The - in the NYSE?
The symbol for First Marblehead Corporation (The) in the NYSE is: FMD.
If every single sheep got foot-and-mouth disease what would happen?
The world economy would stop as cattle, goats, pigs and all other cloven hoofed animals can get FMD. All exports and imports of animals and their products would stop and there would be mass slaughtering of affected stock.
