- Rollin' Rollin' Rollin', keep them Mexican and Latin
American trucks a Rollin' across the border into the US...
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- FMD - Another reason to NOT allow free movement of trucks
from South and Central America into the US. FMD outbreak in Peru can cause
FMD outbreak in the US. We learned how FMD spreads and how easy it is to
carry the virus on the wheels of a truck. It can become airborne and travel
almost 200 miles.
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- Patty
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- From ProMED-mail A ProMED mail post ProMED-mail is a
program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
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Foot And Mouth Disease In Peru
- OIE Alert Messages
6-17-4
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- Information received on 17 Jun 2004 from Dr Oscar Dominguez
Falcon, Director General for Animal Health, National Animal Health Service,
Ministry of Agriculture, Lima:
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- Date of the report: 17 Jun 2004.
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- FMD due to virus serotype O was reported in 8 fattening
cattle, in 3 farms in Lurin district, Lima Department, in a zone where
vaccination is practised and where no cases of the disease had been detected
since October 2000. Laboratory diagnosis was made on 11 and 14 Jun 2004.
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- Sanitary measures taken:
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- - Destruction of all 8 positive cattle. - Slaughter of
all 80 contact cattle. - Vaccination and booster vaccination in the area.
- Movement restrictions for susceptible species into and out of the affected
area. - Upholding and strengthening of epidemiological surveillance by
serological monitoring.
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- -- ProMED-mail promed@promedmail.org
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging
Diseases" message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=emergingdiseases
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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