Photos of F&MD

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This is a very graphic site that shows exactly what F&MD looks like on an animal. Please go to the site (You need Acrobat reader to access) and look at the photos. Also gives the general information about it.

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/pubs/brofmd.pdf

The aphis.usda.gov site itself is great, you can enter code words like F&MD, Scrapie, or even Africanized Bees, anything that the USDA site covers, into Mind-it and it will forward to you any information that changes on the site. It will also forward changes to other sites, like blackbeautyranch.org, I have it on Mind-it for when they bring in new stock for rescue. Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), April 25, 2001

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Vicki, Wow! I have been keeping up on articles but have never seen pictures. A must look for anyone interested in FMD. Thanks Vicki for sharing.

-- JoAnn Nehls SD (jonehls@excite.com), April 25, 2001.

Interesting photos! We've just heard of a case of FMD in a human over here in England. It was one of the slaughtermen disposing of cattle carcasses that had been left lying in a farmyard for nearly two weeks.

He chained it's back left leg and front right leg to the bucket of a backhoe and was guiding the animal up and over the steel rails to go into a wagon, when the cow exploded and he got a mouthful of green gunge straight from the cow's bloated stomach. He's in hospital, but he'll be OK. There are two more suspected cases in humans being checked out as well.

I was eating my supper when the news about the exploding cow came on the news. I didn't finish it!

-- Eric J Methven (e_methven@btinternet.com), April 26, 2001.


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