Disease Information

11 May 2001
Vol. 14 - No. 19

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN BRAZIL

See also: 19 January 2001, 13 October 2000, 22 September 2000, 8 September 2000, 25 August 2000, 12 May 2000

(Date of last previously reported outbreak: October 2000).

Emergency report

Translation of an e-mail received on 9 May 2001 from Dr Paulo Lourenço da Silva, Director, Department of Animal Protection, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply, Brasilia:

Report date: 8 May 2001.

Nature of diagnosis: clinical and laboratory.

Date of initial detection of animal health incident: 8 May 2001.

Estimated date of first infection: 5 May 2001.

Outbreaks:

Location	No. of outbreaks
district of Santana do Livramento, State of Rio Grande do Sul (30º 8' S - 55º 6' W), near the border with Uruguay	1 holding

Description of affected population: the sick animals were more than 36 months old.

Total number of animals in the outbreak:

species	susceptible	cases	deaths	destroyed	slaughtered
bov	661	15	0	...	...
ovi	736	0	0	...	...

Diagnosis:

A. Laboratory where diagnosis was made: Laboratory of Animal Protection, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply, Recife, Pernambuco.

B. Diagnostic tests used: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

C. Causal agent: FMD virus type A.

Epidemiology:

A. Source of agent / origin of infection: investigations under way.

B. Mode of spread: investigations under way.

Control measures: in the States of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina -which constituted the zone free from FMD-, vaccination had been suspended since May 2000. Strategic vaccination has now been authorised in 25 districts in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, at the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.

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