foot-and-mouth disease
noun
: an acute contagious febrile disease especially of cloven-footed animals that is caused by serotypes of a picornavirus (Aphthovirus vesiculae) and is marked by ulcerating vesicles (see vesicle sense 1b) in the mouth, about the hooves, and on the udder and teats
called also foot-and-mouth, hoof-and-mouth disease
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Hungary detected its first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in over 50 years on March 7, 2025, at a cattle farm near the Slovak border.
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
The statement went on to warn that foot-and-mouth disease is a concern with Argentine beef.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
Producers fear that the export market would vanish overnight if diseases, including mad cow or foot-and-mouth disease, infected Australian cattle.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 July 2025
In 2007, foot-and-mouth disease, which spreads rapidly through livestock populations and can easily cause billions of dollars of economic damage, leaked not once but twice from the same British laboratory within weeks, even after government intervention.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
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Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
The statement went on to warn that foot-and-mouth disease is a concern with Argentine beef.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
Producers fear that the export market would vanish overnight if diseases, including mad cow or foot-and-mouth disease, infected Australian cattle.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 July 2025
In 2007, foot-and-mouth disease, which spreads rapidly through livestock populations and can easily cause billions of dollars of economic damage, leaked not once but twice from the same British laboratory within weeks, even after government intervention.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
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“Foot-and-mouth disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foot-and-mouth%20disease. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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