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单词 foot and mouth disease
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foot and mouth disease
foot and mouth disease n. a highly contagious disease mainly affecting cattle, sheep, swine, and other cloven-footed animals, characterized by fever and the formation of blisters in the mouth and on the feet and teats, and caused by a picornavirus.Although rarely fatal, foot and mouth disease causes a great loss of productivity in livestock and hence is very rigorously controlled in most countries.
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aphthous fever1759
foot and mouth disease1850
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hoof-and-mouth disease1887
aftosa1903
1850 Rep. Commissioners Smithfield Market 77 in Parl. Papers XXXI. 355 Are they [sc. cattle] subject to any contagious disease?—They are; they are subject to a foot and mouth disease, which although not very fatal in its consequences, is very prejudicial.
1869 Echo Oct. 9 The Foot and Mouth Disease which has been raging with some virulence is now beginning to abate.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 267 In animals, viruses cause such common diseases as foot-and-mouth disease, distemper, swine fever, the animal poxes, rabies, and many diseases of birds.
2001 Independent on Sunday 6 May i. 1/2 Less than one in five of the country's footpaths are unbarred this bank holiday, although the Government now admits that people who walk on them pose no risk of spreading foot and mouth disease.
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