Official name:State of Kuwait
WRLFMD code:KUW
FMD first recorded: 
FMD eradicated: 
Subsequent outbreaks: 
Serotypes (last rpt): 
Current status: 
Useful websites: 
FMDV SerotypeYears (not comprehensive)
Untyped2016
O1963, 1966, 1968-1969, 1971-1973, 1981-1982, 1986, 1988, 1994-1998, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2011-2012, 2016
A1964-1965, 1969, 1973-1975, 1977, 1981, 2009
C1982
Asia 11978-1979, 1981
SAT 11969-1970, 2025
SAT 22000
SAT 3-
Notes-

WRLFMD batch no.Date ReceivedVirus samplesTypeTopotypeLineageSublineageWRLFMD Reports
 21/02/2002KUW 1/2002Ond-- 
KUW 2/2002Ond-​-
WRLFMD/2006/0001011/04/2006KUW/2/2006OME-SAPanAsia-Detection
Genotyping(O)
Vaccine(O)
KUW/3/2006OME-SAPanAsia-
KUW/1/2006NVD   
WRLFMD/2008/0000415/02/2008KUW/1/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-Detection
Genotyping(O)
Vaccine(O)
KUW/2/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/3/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/4/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/5/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/6/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/7/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/8/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/9/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
KUW/10/2008OME-SAPanAsia-2-
WRLFMD/2009/0000411/02/2009KUW/1/2009AASIAIran-05BAR-09Detection
Vaccine(A)
KUW/2/2009AASIAIran-05BAR-09
KUW/3/2009AASIAIran-05BAR-09
KUW/4/2009AASIAIran-05BAR-09
KUW/5/2009AASIAIran-05BAR-09
KUW/6/2009AASIAIran-05BAR-09
WRLFMD/2011/0003218/07/2011KUW/1/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10Detection
Genotyping(O)
Vaccine(O)
KUW/2/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
WRLFMD/2012/0001313/03/2012KUW/3/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10Detection
Genotyping(O)
Vaccine(O)
KUW/4/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/5/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/6/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/7/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/8/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/9/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/10/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/11/2011OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/1/2012OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/2/2012OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
KUW/3/2012OME-SAPanAsia-2ANT-10
WRLFMD/2016/0000910/02/2016KUW/1/2016OME-SAPanAsia-2QOM-15*Detection
Genotyping(O)
Vaccine
KUW/2/2016OME-SAPanAsia-2QOM-15*
KUW/4/2016OME-SAPanAsia-2QOM-15*
KUW/3/2016FMDV‑GDnd--
WRLMEG/2025/00001428/05/2025KUW/2025 †SAT 1I (NWZ)--Genotyping(SAT1)

*, previously classified as BAL-09 sublineage.
†, Not a WRLFMD reference number (only VP1 sequence received)