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Zebu cattle at Old Oyo National Park in Nigeria. Livestock producers travelling to countries with foot-and-mouth disease can minimize the risk of bringing it home.
Animal Health, Beef Cattle, Livestock

Keeping foot-and-mouth disease out of Canada

Travelling to a country with cases of foot-and-mouth? Here’s what you need to know before you come home

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What foreign animal diseases are we most concerned about entering Canada? You’ve probably heard a lot about African swine fever lately. Before 2022, highly pathogenic avian influenza was high on the list. African swine fever has the potential to decimate the Canadian pork industry and avian influenza has already wreaked havoc on the poultry industry. […] Read more
Researchers see some promising uses for mRNA cattle vaccines, but they are unlikely to replace existing vaccines for common cattle diseases, partly due to practical limitations.
Animal Health, Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Finishers, News

mRNA vaccines unlikely to replace common cattle vaccines, but could help contain foot-and-mouth disease in future

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Vaccines have been a valuable tool to protect cattle health in North America, ever since the first blackleg vaccine was developed over a century ago. Ensuring the health of Canadian cattle is critical to maintaining consumer confidence, access to global livestock and beef markets and producer profitability. Vaccines help prevent infection and disease caused by […] Read more
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Foot-and-mouth disease is a huge threat

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Livestock producers across North America tremble when the name of a certain animal disease is mentioned. They know there has not been a case of the disease in the U.S. since 1929 and in Canada since 1952. But they know the disease is endemic in other countries and could enter the U.S. They also are […] Read more
If foot-and-mouth reared its ugly head in Canada, the hope is to find it quickly enough to isolate it.
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Comment: Is Canada ready for a foot-and-mouth outbreak?

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Last column I outlined a brief history of the 1951- 52 foot-and-mouth outbreak around Regina, Sask. We haven’t had a foot-and-mouth outbreak in this country since, but it remains a global threat. The World Organization for Animal Health estimates that it affects 77 per cent of the global livestock population, circulating in Africa, the Middle […] Read more
It’s worth thinking about what our governments and industry are doing to minimize the risk of a future outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, given how widespread it remains globally.
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Comment: A look back at foot-and-mouth in Canada

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Foot-and-mouth disease has been a nagging worry for many in our beef industry. The proposed Canadian vaccine bank is regularly on the agenda at industry conferences and the animal health committee meeting during the Canadian Cattle Association AGM (and will likely be again next month in Ottawa). The prospect of a foot-and-mouth outbreak in this […] Read more
Foot-and-mouth disease is regularly found in many parts of the world and threatens Canada’s livestock industry.
Livestock, Vet advice

Much to learn about foot-and-mouth disease: Part 3 of 3

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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In a crisis, affected people act on information differently than during non-crisis situations. They often exaggerate communication responses as they revert to more basic or instinctive “fight-or-flight” reasoning. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in previously FMD-free countries always creates crisis circumstances because economies collapse. Plus producers are thrust into disorder of a magnitude that frightens most because […] Read more
Foot-and-mouth disease is regularly found in many parts of the world and threatens Canada’s livestock industry.
Livestock, Vet advice

Much to learn about foot-and-mouth disease: Part 2

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious, acute, viral disease affecting cloven-hooved animals including pigs, cattle, sheep and goats. Controlling FMD in countries previously free of the disease and wishing to re-establish freedom is a sophisticated process requiring technical expertise, persistence and tough decisions. The disease is characterized by formation of vesicles and erosions inside […] Read more
Foot-and-mouth disease is regularly found in many parts of the world and threatens Canada’s livestock industry.
Livestock, Vet advice

Much to learn about foot-and-mouth disease: Part 1

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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This article is the first of a series of three dealing with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and emergency planning. Through May and June of 2020, 88 veterinarians and registered animal health technologists from across Canada and the U.S. participated in a series of webinars dealing with the control of FMD. A panel of experts from the […] Read more
In February, veterinarians and industry staff travelled to Uganda to learn more about FMD and how to identify and contain it. Uganda has struggled with FMD for decades.
Features, Livestock

Preparing for a foot-and-mouth outbreak

Outbreak planning resources, training opportunities and the establishment of a Canadian vaccine bank all in the works to help the cattle industry prevent or respond to the disease

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It’s a nightmare no livestock producer wants to experience; watching as your entire herd is put down. The devastation is written across the hardened faces of the farmers featured in a National Film Board of Canada documentary on the 1952 foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in southern Saskatchewan. The emotional toll of your cattle becoming infected […] Read more
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History: Foot and Mouth Disease Officially Ended

Reprinted from the September 1952 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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By Kenneth Coppock On August 19th the Government of Canada officially proclaimed that Foot and Mouth had been eliminated in Canada and from that date forward all quarantine restrictions imposed to control and eliminate the disease had been lifted. Approximately six months after the first outbreak on the Regina Plains and about three and a […] Read more

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