Table 2 : FMD in Mediterranean Maghreb between 1967 and 1983
Years
Countries
Type of virus
species
Likely origin
No of outbreaks
Vaccination
1967
Algeria
?
Tunisia ?
1969
Tunisia
C
1975
O
cattle
1977
Morocco
A77
import of frozen meat
from South America
1612 outbreaks,
11412 cattle
2.5 million doses
70% of bovines
Morocco ?
1979
A
1982
A5
1983
introduction of sheep from Iberian peninsula