Disease, lost, on an average, 30.2 kg of weight. 
| The damages, as a result of the Footeand-Mouth Disease, 
constitute both direct and indirect expenses, The extent of 
the damage depends on the severity of the disease, effectiveness 
of the measures adopted to combat the virus, time of the year 
and other factors. 
In our country the prophylaxis and measures to fight this 
disease is of national importance. 
The problem of the Footeand-Mouth Disease is fairly wide 
spread. This paper discusses it from the point of view of the 
 @pizootologyst and deals with the most rational measures of 
_ prophylaxis and measures to combat this morbidity. 
| During the last 20 years on the territory of the Ukrain 
SSR, three cases of epizootic have been recorded: the Foote 
and-Mouth epizootic of 1952 to 1955 was caused by the viurs 
type A-7; in 1958 to 1963 it was caused by the virus type 0-2 
and the 1965 to 1966 epizootic was caused by the A=22 type 
virus. 
The first of these epizootic penetrated the West in 1952, 
and was sufficiently discussed in the foreign literature 
(Pluckiger, 1952; Ramon, 1962) and.by our own publication 
os: Bondarenko, and S.P. Didovets, 1970; and GF. Bondarenko, 
The second epizootic, caused by the O#2 virus, commenced 
in the countries of the Near East, covered the Caucasus and then, 
tewards the end of the 1958 summer, it penetrated the Ukrain 
through the Crimean peninsula. 
The Footeand-Mouth epizootic, caused by the A-22 virus, 
penetrated the Republic almost in the same manner as the second 
epizootic. During the 1964 period and the first half of 1965, 
it was registered in the Trans-Caucasus region, then it 
penetrated the Central regions of RSFSR (the Russian Soviet 
Federative Socialist Republic) followed by the northern and 
eastern regions of the Ukrainian SSR. 
‘During these years, the foot-and-Mouth Disease was benign, - 
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