How to Use foot-and-mouth disease in a Sentence

foot-and-mouth disease

noun
  • Stem rust, rice blast, foot-and-mouth disease, avian flu, hog cholera.
    Nicola Twille, Wired, 6 July 2021
  • Aftosa is foot-and-mouth disease: There is reason to fear that the highway would become a vector for it.
    Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
  • For many, the very idea evokes memories of the catastrophic 2001 foot-and-mouth disease crisis, which led to the culling of millions of sheep.
    Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
  • In her longest-in-British-history reign, nothing has kept the queen away from the five days of races — not pregnancy, a speech to Parliament or even an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
    Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
  • In 2001, when foot-and-mouth disease swept across Britain, causing millions of farm animals to be slaughtered, the Chinese food industry was widely, and wrongly, blamed.
    Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Popular hypotheses held that bats spread Ebola virus, for example, and gazelles foot-and-mouth disease.
    New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
  • In 1898, the same year as Beijerinck’s work was published, foot-and-mouth disease in cattle became the first animal illness linked to a filterable agent, or a microbe small enough to pass through a porcelain filter.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The Imperial College modeling team should have faced an audit of its models and practices after the foot-and-mouth disease debacle more than 20 years ago.
    Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Its animal vaccines have been used to protect billions of farm animals from foot-and-mouth disease and to chemically castrate pigs.
    Scott Deveau, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • The bonanza ended when the US permanently halted hedgehog shipments from countries with foot-and-mouth disease, a list that included Nigeria.
    Noelle Mateer, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The facility modified its priorities, focusing on foot-and-mouth disease and disbanding the ASF team.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019

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