Exploratory Animal and Medical Research (Jul 2011)
OUTBREAK OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AT HOWRAH DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL
Abstract
The present communication records a severe outbreak of FMD where adult cattle were also died in significant number beside death of calves and goats. 32 numbers of samples were sent to the laboratory for virus isolation and typing which was subsequently found "O" type FMD virus. 16 number of post mortem examination pointed out the prominent lesion in heart which became dilated and flabby with epicardiac haemorrhage and with the typical symptom of tigroid heart.
