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Information received on 04/01/2007 from Dr Moshe Chaimovitz, Director, Veterinary Services and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Developement, BEIT DAGAN, Israel

Summary

Report type	Follow-up report No. 1
Start date	28/12/2006
Date of confirmation of event	01/01/2007
Report date	04/01/2007
Date submitted to OIE	05/01/2007
Reason for notification	Reoccurrence of listed disease
Date of previous occurrence	12/2005
Manifestation of disease	Clinical disease
Causal agent	FMD virus
Serotype	O
Nature of diagnosis	Suspicion, Clinical, Laboratory (basic), Laboratory (advanced), Necropsy
Report pertains to	Entire country
Related reports	Immediate notification (02/01/2007) Follow-up report No. 1 (04/01/2007)

New Outbreaks

Outbreak 1 (MEVO HAMMA)	MEVO HAMMA, Golan, HAZAFON
Date of start of outbreak	01/01/2007
Outbreak status	Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)
Epidemiological unit	Farm
Affected animals	Species Susceptible Cases Deaths Destroyed Slaughtered Cattle 210 15 5 0 0
Affected population	The herd contains calves aged 1-8 months. The affected calves are 1-3 months old and have not yet been vaccinated. The older calves are not affected due to previous vaccination. The sick calves show classical signs of the disease such as limping, ulcers in the mucosa of the mouth and the tongue and high fever.
Summary of outbreaks	Total outbreaks: 1
Outbreak statistics	Species Apparent morbidity rate Apparent mortality rate Apparent case fatality rate Proportion susceptible removed* Cattle 7.14% 2.38% 33.33% 2.38% * Removed from the susceptible population either through death, destruction or slaughter

Epidemiology

Source of infection

Unknown or inconclusive

Control measures

Measures already applied	Movement control inside the country Vaccination in response to the outbreak (s) Quarantine Vaccination permitted No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied	Screening

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory name and type	National FMD Laboratory, Kimron Veterinay Institute (National laboratory)
Tests and results	Species Test Test date Result Goats antigen (Ag) detection ELISA 01/01/2007 Positive

Map of outbreak locations

Location of current outbreaks

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