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There are two levels of this disease, subacute and acute. In the subacute form, animals show signs of incoordination, weakness, tremors, blindness, and depression. In the acute form, lambs are found dead or comatose, experiencing involuntary muscle contractions or seizures.
Pain and discomfort from the lesions lead to depression, loss of appetite, weight loss, and lameness, with animals unwilling to move or even to rise to their feet. Animals produce little or no milk. Owners may sell or cull animals to avoid the cost of maintaining animals that have little pro-duction value. Older animals will suffer clinical signs for weeks before generally recovering. But younger animals â calves, lambs piglets â may die from foot-and-mouth disease due to sudden heart failure.