FMD - Foot and mouth disease

Even-toed ungulates and elephants are susceptible to FMD.

3 elephants that died 2001 in New Delhi have been reported to be infected with FMD. Later follow-up confirmed as type O. Type O FMD virus was also reported to have caused the disease in five wild Asian elephants in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Karnataka, India, in 2002.

     

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