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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Veterinary Infectious Diseases
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1429760

Surviving the summer: foot-and-mouth disease virus survival in U.S. regional soil types at high ambient temperatures

Provisionally accepted
Andrea L. Bessler Andrea L. Bessler 1Serena Nayee Serena Nayee 1,2Rebecca Garabed Rebecca Garabed 1*Peter W. Krug Peter W. Krug 3John Obrycki John Obrycki 4Luis L. Rodriguez Luis L. Rodriguez 5
  • 1 Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
  • 2 Other, Atlanta, United States
  • 3 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States
  • 4 Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • 5 Foreign Animal Disease Research Laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service (USDA), Orient Point, New York, United States

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    Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most economically significant global livestock diseases. In the U.S., economic optimization models run in 2011 demonstrate the highest mean epidemic impact of a potential FMD outbreak in California would occur in livestock-dense regions, resulting in national agriculture losses of $2.3 to $69.0 billion. In the case that an FMD outbreak occurred in the U.S., mass depopulation, carcass disposal, and disinfection protocols for infected premises have been designed to prevent further viral spread. Because the FMD virus (FMDV) is spread mechanically via the environment, characteristics of viral environmental stability are important. Temperature and adsorption to soil particles are reported to be the most important factors affecting general virus survival; however, how much these factors alter FMDV survival has not been tested. We examined soil samples typical of U.S. regions containing the highest cattle population densities: Tennessee,

    Keywords: Foot and mouth disease, Foreign animal disease, environment, Virus survival, soil analysis

    Received: 08 May 2024; Accepted: 27 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Bessler, Nayee, Garabed, Krug, Obrycki and Rodriguez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Rebecca Garabed, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, Ohio, United States

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