A clinico-epidemiological study on bovine FMD in Tangail region in Bangladesh.

Abstract

Foot and Mouth disease is an acute contagious febrile viral disease of all cloven-hoofed animals affecting mainly cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat and many species of wild life. The disease is characterized by the formation of vesicles in the mouth and feet some times on the skin of udder and teats of females. The morbidity rate of this disease is very high. The mortality rate of the adult cattle is usually less than 5 percent, but in the young this may however be as high as 70 percent due to myocarditis (Ival Arther et al. 1973). In Bangladesh FMD is considered to be the disease affecting mainly the bovines & goats with high incidence in bovine SPP. The study was conducted during the period of 17 December 2008 to 21 February 2009 in Upazilla Veterinary Hospital, Dhanbari, Tangail. to know the estimation of disease frequency relative to geographic area, demographic information of FMD. About 41 animals were found as positive case of FMD out of 120 Cases. The incidence of FMD at mushuddi Union was higher (16.7%) than Dhanbari (10%) and paiska Union (7.5%), 100% mortality was observed in young animals less than 1 year old, and no mortality observed in adult animals above 1 year old. Female animals were more affected (78%) than male animals (22%) and cross bred animals were more affected (61%) than local non-descriptive animals (39%) out of 41 FMD affected animals. From the study it is observed that stall housed animals were less affected (19.5%) than mixed (Stall + Loose) housed animals (80.5%).