Cattle with foot-and-mouth disease

Early signs of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in cattle are fever, lameness, shivering, long strings
of sticky saliva, sudden drop in milk production and blisters.

As the disease develops, infected cattle may:

• stop eating
• develop mastitis
• have quivering lips
• produce frothy saliva that drips to the ground at intervals
• be sitting down away from the grazing herd.

At first suspicion of sickness or a disease that concerns you, contact your local vet or notify Agriculture Victoria on the Emergency Animal Disease Watch Hotline 1800 675 888.

More information

Look for the signs of foot-and-mouth disease

Sheep and goats with foot-and-mouth disease

Pigs with foot-and-mouth disease

Cattle with foot-and-mouth disease

Images courtesy of The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD)