If you do, it may be seized by the local authority or the police and treated as a stray. Also, an inspector may serve a notice on anyone in an infected area to keep a dog under specific controls. Dogs kept under proper control are not prevented from being moved. But cats are not affected. The main thing to look out for is blisters, or vesicles, in the mouth or on the feet.
Pigs suffer fever, lameness, dullness and loss of appetite.
The virus can be destroyed by heat, low humidity, or certain disinfectants, but it may remain active for a varying time in a suitable medium such as the frozen or chilled carcass of an infected animal and on contaminated objects. The disease is rarely fatal, except in the case of very young animals, which may die without showing any symptoms. The most serious effects of the disease are seen in dairy cattle. Loss of milk yield, abortion, sterility, chronic mastitis, and chronic lameness are commonplace. There is no cure.