The incubation period is from two to 14 days. Transmission to humans is rare but can occur and results in a disease called aphthous fever. The symptoms are fever, vomiting, hot flashes, dry mouth and sores on the lips, tongue and cheeks. It lasts for from seven to 10 days and, as in ruminants, can involve the heart and lungs. That means that if the disease is confirmed, the animal is destroyed and burned.
Treatment is economically unfeasible.
The strictly enforced negative control program used by the United States has kept FMD out for more than 70 years, but it has to be maintained just as strictly. The way this disease is, it's just like water running down a hill. The costs just keep coming in. One of those costs is disinfecting. So in addition to the cost of the lost production, there is the cost of disinfection.