Disease Information

18 May 2001
Vol. 14 - No. 20

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN MONGOLIA
Follow-up report No. 4

See also: 23 March 2001, 16 March 2001, 9 March 2001, 23 February 2001, 4 August 2000, 4 August 2000, 19 May 2000, 5 May 2000

Text of a fax received on 18 May 2001 from Dr Ravdan Sanjaatogtokh, Director, State Veterinary Services, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ulaanbaatar:

End of previous report period: 16 March 2001 (see Disease Information, 14 [12], 65, dated 23 March 2001).

End of this report period: 16 May 2001.

New outbreaks:

Location	No. of outbreaks
Jargalant, Orkhon province	1

Total number of animals in the new outbreak:

species	susceptible	cases	deaths	destroyed	slaughtered
bov/cap	2,019	3	1	2	...

Diagnosis:

A. Laboratory where diagnosis was made: State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ulaanbaatar.

B. Diagnostic tests used: ELISA⁽¹⁾.

C. Causal agent: virus type O.

Epidemiology:

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

B. Mode of spread: contact with the transport vehicles.

Control measures during reporting period:

- quarantine and movement control inside Orkhon province;

- ring vaccination has started.

(1) ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.