What is the performance of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and sheep? What kind of medicine should I use? How to prevent and cure?

Foot-and-mouth disease of cattle and sheep is an acute, febrile and highly contagious disease caused by foot-and-mouth disease virus. It can happen all the year round, and it is easy to be popular in spring and autumn. What is the performance of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and sheep? What kind of medicine should I use? How to prevent and cure?

What is the performance of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and sheep?

1. Foot-and-mouth disease of cattle and sheep mainly shows blisters and rotten spots in oral mucosa, hoof and nipple skin. Epidemic prevention measures should be strengthened in peacetime, reported as soon as possible after the occurrence, strict isolation, blockade of epidemic areas, in line with the principle of "early, fast, strict, small". Mild cases should be treated by local surgery, severe antiserum to neutralize toxin and cardiotonic fluid replacement.

two。 After cattle and sheep are infected with foot-and-mouth disease, it usually takes 2 to 8 days to develop the disease, up to 14 days. When the virus enters the blood stage, the body temperature of the diseased animals rises to 40 ℃ ~ 41 ℃, depressed spirit and loss of appetite, and then blisters the size of peas or even the size of broad beans occur on the oral mucosa, the skin between toes and nipples, and then the blisters converge with each other to form the rupture of large and small blisters. The affected animal drooled so much that the sucking sound could be heard when it opened its mouth. When the affected animal suffered from ulceration of the mouth, the skin between the toes and the crown of the hoof showed thermal pain and swelling, and blisters appeared after 1-2 days, and rotten spots were formed after breaking. When the limbs are sick at the same time, the affected animals show alternating weight-bearing shape, and often shake their hind legs, limping while walking, and in serious cases lie down for a long time and it is difficult to stand up. Such as infection suppuration or necrosis, hoof box may fall off, hoof bone necrosis and other diseases.

What medicine should I use for foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and sheep? How to prevent and cure?

1. Prophylactic injections. In areas where foot-and-mouth disease has occurred over the years, all cattle and sheep should be vaccinated regularly every year. Cattle and sheep were immunized after 14 days of injection of attenuated vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease, and the immunity period was up to 4-6 months. If foot-and-mouth disease has occurred, the disease materials should be submitted for examination in time, reported quickly at the same time, and notify neighboring units to organize joint prevention and control. Delimit epidemic areas, strictly block them, and put them out on the spot as soon as possible.

two。 Isolation treatment. Diseased animals and suspected diseased animals should be treated in isolation. And by the special person nursing, the designated place feeding and management. Vaccination should be given to cattle and sheep that do not have the disease. Oral lesions can be washed with clean water, salt water or 0.1% potassium permanganate solution, then coated with 1% 2% alum solution or iodine glycerin, or coated with traditional Chinese medicine ice boron powder on the oral lesions. Foot lesions can be cleaned with 3% Laisuer, then smeared with gentian purple solution, penicillin ointment, etc., and bandaged with bandages. Places and utensils contaminated by diseased animals should be disinfected with 2% sodium hydroxide solution or 10% lime water, the diseased body is inedible, and the fur is soaked and disinfected with 2% sodium hydroxide solution. The feces of diseased animals should be fermented before they can be used. It will take two months for healthy livestock to enter places where sick animals have been grazed. After the last sick animal is cured or died, the blockade can be lifted only after thorough disinfection when there are no new cases after 14 days.