Foot and Mouth Disease

The FAZD Center's portal to the best available web-based information on the threat of foot and mouth disease to U.S. agriculture. Note: While considered a foreign disease, FMD is not considered a zoonotic (animal-to-human transmission) disease.

The FAZD Center

Documents and presentations about FMD from the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense

USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) www.usda.gov

The USDA's mandate stretches well beyond supporting the nation's farmers and ranchers. Its current areas of interest include conservation, land stewardship, human nutrition, food marketing, anti-hunger efforts and rural development.

IAH (Institute for Animal Health) http://www.iah.bbsrc.ac.uk/

The Institute for Animal Health (IAH) is a world-leading center of excellence, and the major center in the UK, for research on infectious diseases of livestock. The institute has three sites, located at Compton in Berkshire; Pirbright in Surrey; and the Neuropathogenesis Unit in Edinburgh. The IAH is one of eight research institutes sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) www.oie.int

Based in Paris, the OIE is an intergovernmental organization created by the International Agreement in 1924 and signed by 28 countries. Membership now totals 167 countries.

Additional resources

Useful information about FMD from a variety of sources.