ours goes out all the time into a field behind the house where cows are
i know its unlikely that the cows have the disease, but is it possible in theory?
Answers:
NO. Please don't worry about your cat, only species of animals with clooved hooves such as cows, sheep and pigs can get foot and mouth disease. Interestingly though, elephants can contract it.
Horses CANNOT get foot and mouth either.
No impossible, it is only cows/sheep and I think pigs
cats don't get foot and mouth disease .Children can get it in day care centers . cows and horses can get it. I just found a site that it said that dogs and cats are carriers of the disease. They can contaminate other animals and also people.
I am not sure what causes foot and mouth disease in cattle and sheep - a parsite, bacteria, virus? I guess you could go the wikipedia.com and look it up.
Most conditions are "species specific". The critters who pass along the condition have chosen their favorite hosts to "infect" and evolved to use only one species for their survival.
Only if they have cloven feet.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) is a highly infectious viral disease that affects cloven-hooved animals. Cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and deer are highly susceptible to FMD. Signs of infection occur in most affected species within one to five days, but sheep and goats may never show outward evidence.There are seven or more types and 60+ subtypes of the virus, and it is constantly mutating, making preventative vaccination impractical and ineffective. FMD easily crosses species in all cloven-hooved animals. Deer and other species of wildlife can rapidly become infected and may re-infect domestic livestock. FMD is not zoonotic (transmissable to humans).Symptoms include blisters in the mouth, on the lips and tongue, on the feet and between the toes,sticky, stringy, foamy saliva; animals go off-feed because eating is painful; ruptured blisters discharging cloudy or clear fluid and leaving raw, ragged areas of loose tissue; rapid rise in body temperature, dropping to normal in two to three days and lowered conception rates. That's about all I know about foot and mouth disease. If you're cat has some of those symptoms, i sugest you take it to a vet quickly.
No it affects animals with mainly cloven hooves.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD, Latin name Aphtae epizooticae), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease of cattle and pigs. It can also infect deer, goats, sheep, and other bovids with cloven hooves, as well as elephants, rats, and hedgehogs. Humans are affected only very rarely. The cause of FMD was first shown to be viral in 1897 by Friedrich Loeffler. He passed the blood of an infected animal through a fine porcelain-glass filter and found that the fluid that was collected could still cause the disease in healthy animals.
Contact your vet and ask them, they'll be able to give you a definate answer over the phone.
Hope this helps.
No foot and mouth only affects Cloven Hooved animals like cows, pigs and sheep. And possibly goats. (?not sure on goats?)
No. Its Cloven hoofed animals that are affected.
Foot and mouth only affects cloven hooved animals ie. cattle sheep goats pigs and deer. It can also affect Llamas and camels but believe me your cats are safe.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment