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Foot-and-Mouth Disease

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  Official name: Republic of Namibia (formerly South West Africa)
  WRLFMD code: NMB (formerly SWA)
  FMD first recorded: SAT1 (1949), A (1958), SAT2 (1968), SAT3 (1994)
  FMD eradicated:  
 

Subsequent outbreaks:

 
  Serotypes (last rpt): Cattle: SAT1 (1990), A (1967), SAT2 (2008), SAT3 (1994)
African buffalo: SAT1 (), SAT2 (), SAT3 ()
  Notes: All three SAT types are probably endemic in the buffalo population
  Current status: Sporadic
  Useful websites:  
               
    WRLFMD batch no. Date
Received
Type Virus isolates Topotype Strain
  WRLFMD-2007-00168 18/12/2007 SAT 2 NMB/1/2007
NMB/2/2007*
NMB/4/2007

nd

nd
  - WRLFMD-2007-00168 18/12/2007 FMDV-GD NMB/3/2007
NMB/5/2007
nd
nd
nd
nd
  C WRLFMD-2008-00018 09/06/2008 SAT2 NMB/1/2008    
  IP WRLFMD-2008-00026 01/08/2008 SAT 2 NMB/2/2008
NMB/3/2008
NMB/4/2008
   
               
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IP, sequencing in progress
nd, not done
*, no virus isolated on cell culture
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