What is foot and mouth disease and why is not called hoof and mouth if its cows and sheep that get it?
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Hi mycatty - what a good question. I'm kicking myself for never having questioned why we say "foot and mouth" instead of hoof and mouth - logical, really. Have a star!
I don't know how the disease progresses, but it is an acute and highly infectious viral disease and shows itself as vesicular eruptions (large abscesses) in the animals' mouths and hoofs.
Well maybe because we don't have hoofs and that wouldn't make sense.
FMD would then have to be HAM and that would be confusing..
Foot in mouth disease refers to when a person says something stupid. Its an expression.
Hoof and Mouth is an illness some animals get.
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hmmm... i'm not sure if your talking about the saying foot in mouth disease or something else. i don't recall a foot and mouth disease. but anyway foot in mouth disease is usually because someone is running their mouth. other than that if it actually is a disease thats not what its called i don't think i have never heard of it and i have heard of hoof diseases mouth disease of all sorts with animals but never that.
FMD (Foot and Mouth Disease) is a viral infection which affects cattle and pigs, and some other animals. It CAN be known as Hoof-And-Mouth Disease, and can sometimes infect humans, though it is extremely rare, and the last confirmed human case was in 1966.
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