The diseasecharacterized byhigh fever, cough, serousandfibrinousinflammationofthelungsandpleura with a highmortality rate, is harm to thesheep industry.
As well as foot-and-mouth, the institute also focuses on diseases in cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, including lumpy skin disease, rinderpest, African swine fever, swine vesicular disease and equine encephalosis.