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Published Discussion Documents and Official Risk Assessments for the 2001 UK Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak
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Wildpro Reference Code: W32.Apl01.sib20

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This document was produced by MAFF as a specific response to the FMD outbreak in the UK in 2001 and was made available on their website. Risk Assessments and specific recommendations related to the conditions in the field at the time and should be viewed in this context as they may not be applicable to outbreaks occuring under different circumstances.
Foot and mouth disease
9 April 2001

FMD: List of susceptible species commonly kept in zoos

Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed mammals)

  • Family Suidae - e.g. domestic pigs
  • Family Tayassuidae - e.g. collared peccary
  • Family Camelidae - e.g. Arabian camel, alpaca
  • Suborder Ruminatia - ruminants
  • Family Cervidae - e.g. reindeer, fallow deer
  • Family Giraffidae - e.g. giraffe
  • Family Bovidae – e.g. gaur, yak, cattle, domestic goats and domestic sheep

Perissodactyla

  • Family Tapiridae - Tapir americanus

Proboscidea (elephants)

  • African and Asian elephant

Rodentia (rodents)

  • Family Bathyergidae (African mole-rats)- e.g. Tac hyoryctes splendens
  • Family Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) - e.g. Hystrix galeata

Insectivora (insectivores)

  • Subfamily Erinaceinae - e.g. European hedgehog

Carnivora

  • Family Ursidae - e.g. grizzly and Asiatic black bear

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