Hot news and more for grades 5 and 6 kids, teachers, and parents. The disease produces painful blisters in and around the animals' mouths.
Blisters also form in the soft tissue around their hooves.
Although the disease does not kill most infected animals, the sick animals lose weight and give less milk. Doctors in Great Britain suspect that a man may have a rare human form of the livestock disease. So far, about 1,450 cases of the disease have been confirmed in Britain. More than a half million animals have been killed in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading. Visit the Update Archive and check out past update articles for WR Senior Edition.