Dissemination of foot-and-mouth disease virus through animal products

Foreign Animal Diseases

Abstract

In summary, any and all products from animals infected with FMD may be possible sources of the virus and a means whereby the disease can be transported from one country to another. Some animal products may be imported; however, the procedures which are followed must be exacting, based on sound knowledge about the product and closely controlled. One means of handling these materials is to permit their entry only under special conditions which provide for transport, quarantine, and processing, all of which must be under official supervision and which must be done in such a way to assure that the processing inactivates the virus and that the virus does not escape by way of a byproduct of the manufacturing process.