Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an extremely contagious disease that affects more than 33 species of cloven-hoofed animals including This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any noncommercial medium, provided the original work is properly cited.