- Hello Jeff - It is extremely doubtful that Foot and
Mouth Disease would be killing humans. I agree with the moderators remarks
and the claim that the illness killing humans is probably Crimean Congo
Hemmorhagic Fever and not Foot and Mouth Disease.
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- Foot and Mouth Disease rarely effects humans and if,
so, the illness is usually very mild.
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- Patricia Doyle
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- Undiagnosed Deaths, Human, Goats Pakistan (Baluchistan)
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- A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International
Society for Infectious Diseases
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- Date: Mon 12 Jul 2004
- From: ProMED-mail
- Source: Pak Tribune, 12 Jul 2004
- [edited] http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=70457
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- Foot & mouth disease kills dozens in Balochistan
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- Foot and mouth disease [originating] in hoofed animals
is causing havoc in Balochistan, as dozens of persons have died of a mysterious
disease that is spreading via goats. According to reports, large numbers
of people, mostly shepherds, have been affected by the deadly disease.
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- Many shepherds, and their family members, have been admitted
to local hospitals. Health experts have connected this disease to foot
and mouth disease, because the victims are carrying germs of a similar
type.
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- The deadly disease is spreading like wildfire in Balochistan,
and the Federal Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock has imposed
a ban on the intra-provincial supply of goats from Balochistan.
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- A scientist from the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
anonymously told [Pak Tribune] Online that the public should immediately
stop consuming meat acquired from sheep and goats, fearing that large numbers
of people could be affected.
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- For the time being, no cure for the deadly disease has
been found, and experts fear the death toll could rise.
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- -- ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
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- [Foot and mouth disease virus only rarely causes disease
in humans, and the outbreak of disease described in this report is unlikely
to be caused by foot and mouth disease virus. In the outbreak of foot and
mouth disease that occurred in the UK in 2001, the largest outbreak recorded
so far, there was no confirmed case of human disease. It is likely that
the cases of human disease described in this report are caused by infection
with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), a tick-borne virus
responsible for a highly-lethal infection that is endemic in this region.
An outbreak of suspected CCHFV infection was reported in Baluchistan in
mid-June 2004 (see: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever- Pakistan (Bal) (05):
susp. 20040621.1657). These cases of presumptive CCHFV infection indicated
either an expansion of a focal outbreak, or, alternatively, reflected a
seasonal increase of tick activity over the whole region.
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- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever can be contracted both
by tick-bite and by direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected
domestic animals, such as sheep and goats, or of human patients. Consequently,
nosocomial infection is not uncommon, especially where the disease is not
recognized, and, where there are no facilities for precise diagnosis. Domestic
animals exhibit few signs of disease, and it may be that there is also
a concurrent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in domestic stock in the
region. - Mod.CP]
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- [FMD is endemic in Pakistan, reportedly caused, during
2003, by 3 serotypes: A, Asia1, and O. Official data on the situation regarding
both of the diseases currently prevailing in Baluchistan will be helpful.
- Mod.AS].
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging
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