TT 76-53450 
ON THE EPIZOOTIOLOGY OF FMD IN THE UKRAINE. 
VETERINARIIA (KIEV), in Ukrainian, Vol. 34, 1973, pp» 19-23. 
(Article by Dubrovin, £.I. and V.I. Poluliakh). 
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During the recent times, three foot and mouth epizootic 
occurrences were recorded in the Ukrain, which were cansed by 
various types or varieties of the foot and movth virus. The 
foot and mouth epizootic of the 1952 to 1955 was caused by the 
virus type A_, the epzootic of the 1958 to 1963 was as a result 
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of the virus type "O", and during the period of 1965 to 1966 it 
Was caused by virus type Aaoe 
These three epizootics differed from each other by the 
development, duration, number of affected cattle, and the number 
of cattle which had succumbed to it. 
If we take as 100 the number of areas and animals in the 
areas that were affected by the foot and mouth disease during 
the 1952 to 1955 epizootic, then the number of areas affected by 
this epizootic during the 1958-1963 was 52.5, the number of large 
cattle in these farms affected by the disease was 59, number of 
pigs was 240 and number of sheep was 972, whereas, during the 
