PRO/AH> Foot & mouth disease – Russia (02): (ZB) bovine, st O, epidemiology

Foot and Mouth — Russia
Having the longest land border, the Russian Federation is under constant threat of importation of pathogens of transboundary animal diseases. Thus, the causative agents of the African swine fever [ASF] and infectious nodular dermatitis [LSD] were introduced into the territory of the Russian Federation through the countries of Transcaucasia.
Earlier this year [2018], in the Trans-Baikal Territory, foci of foot and mouth disease [FMD] were registered, caused by a drift, from the territory of