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Foot and mouth disease: Epidemiology

Environment

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For transmission of FMD virus to occur between animals, it must survive a variable time in the environment. The requirements for survival in the environment are very different from those for survival in the host, and put an additional series of constraints on the structure of the virus.

   


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