Foot and Mouth Disease
ARGENTINA - A report via OIE discusses a suspected outbreak of Foot and Mouth in Argentina.
(Date of previous outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Argentina reported to the OIE: January 2002).
Emergency report
Translation of information received on 4 September 2003 from Dr Jorge Nestor Amaya, President, National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (SENASA), Secretariat for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Buenos Aires:
Report date: 4 September 2003.
Nature of diagnosis: clinical.
Date of initial detection of animal health incident: 28 August 2003.
Location: San Martín department, Salta province.
Description of suspect animals: various categories of pigs, showing signs of malnutrition, lameness and limb lesions.
Total number of animals:
species | susceptible | cases | deaths | destroyed | slaughtered |
sui | 39 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Diagnosis:
A. Laboratory where diagnosis is being carried out: Central Laboratory of SENASA.
B. Diagnostic tests:
- VIAA (detection of antibodies to structural and non structural proteins of FMD virus);
- typing ELISA;
- virus isolation.
Epidemiology:
A. Source of agent / origin of infection: investigations are under way.
B. Mode of spread: investigations are under way.
C. Other epidemiological details:
- establishment located near a municipal abattoir, 10 km from the town of Tartagal and 40 km from the border with Bolivia.
- zone characterised by its low livestock density, mainly with subsistence producers, and no production link with other regions.
Control measures:
- quarantine and movement control inside the country;
- screening;
- vaccination;
- zoning.
(1) VIAA: virus infection associated antigen.
(2) ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
Source: OFFICE INTERNATIONAL DES EPIZOOTIES - 5th September 2003