They are an odd mix in their faces and body type. Some have little Bond faces but have more the Corriedale body and some look just like the Corriedales. We did get two purebred Bond lambs from Kalmia and James. Here they are at one week old and then later at two months old. It is the single most contagious disease of livestock and also includes wildlife such as deer, elk, bison, antelope, and bighorn sheep.
Humans can and do track the virus about to different places on their shoes, clothes, trucks, etc.
They can serve as mechanical vectors for FMD, just as a virus covered doorknob or computer keyboard, and you can catch somebody else's cold. The tracking about of virus on shoes is why the public walking paths throughout Britain have been closed and why only persons associated with a particular farm are allowed entry to that farm. I have attended several workshops and seminars about this and have come to the conclusion that we need to be very careful about the attendance of visitors not only to our farms, but also to fairs. In this day and age of fast travel from one end of the earth to another, it is very possible for someone who has been traveling out of the USA to bring in this disease and then transmit it to livestock, if contact is made within 5 to 10 days of return to this country. At the Estes Park Wool Market this past weekend they had taken the precaution of posting signs at the entrances to the grounds asking that visitors that have been out of the USA within the past 5 days, not visit the grounds at this time.