IS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE A HUMAN HEALTH RISK?
It is not believed to readily affect humans. The disease has no implications for the human food chain. There is no danger to human health from eating or drinking products from infected animals. There has been only one recorded human case of FMD. In that one human case, the virus caused a minor, flu-like illness in a person in Great Britain in 1966. What’s important to note, however, is that although humans are not usually infected, they can carry the virus and infect other animals. The virus is easily transmitted by contaminated shoes and can remain in the nasal passages of exposed individuals for as long as 28 hours.
