The Authors evaluated the potential for preclinical diagnosis during reactive surveillance to reduce the risk of between-farm transmission of foot-and-mouth disease.

Quantitative risk assessment was used here to estimate the risk of introduction of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus into the Argentine FMD-free without vaccination zone via legal or illegal trade of bone-in beef and non-vaccinated live animals from the FMD-free zone with vaccination of the country. Because trade of those commodities between those two zones is currently banned in Argentina, the analysis here will help evaluating the impact of relaxing such prohibition in the national regulation and the impact of illegal trade.

Peste de Petits ruminants (PPR) represents a differential diagnosis for foot-and-mouth disease. The manual gives an overview of the pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical signs, diagnosis and differential diagnosies of PPR. It contains some information about PPR vaccination and control as well as some photos of PPR lesions in goats and sheep.

This is a book which can be used with or without an accompanying software package. The book is designed to provide information on and instructions for how to conduct different types of surveillance schemes including guidance on the collection and analysis of data. It is aimed at both staff working in the field and staff working centrally.

This document outlines manufacturing instructions, including detailed drawings, for manufacture of probang cups for cattle and small ruminants. The probang is used to collect samples from the oro-pharyngeal region and is the method by which carriers of foot-and-mouth disease are detected. [Note document is from 1998]