Studies on foot and Mouth Disease and Rinderpest Viruses in Meat and Meat Products

Summary:-In view of the problems involving Rinderpest andFoot and Mouth Disease viruses in relation to the im-it was of interest to study the role of meat and meatportation of live animals, frozen meat and meat products,products probably played in transmission of Rinderpestand Foot and Mouth Disease viruses.1. Different organ and tissue samples obtainedThe plan of work was based on trials to isolateRinderpest virus or Foot and Mouth Disease virus fromsamples drown as follow:-from experimentally-rinderpest or foot and mouthpredetermined intervals post infection,samplesdisease infected cattle calves, slaughtered atwere treatment as indicated and subsequently sub-jected to virus isolation trials experiments.2. Samples of meat products obtained from Cairomarket .The resuts of these experiments revealed the following:-1- FMD virus could not be detected in ru~en, reticuluD,