One hundred and twenty years of Aftosa (foot-and-mouth disease) in Uruguay

Abstract

The story that we will try to tell begins with a letter dated June 6, 1870, published in the Montevideo newspaper "El Siglo" on the 8th of the same month. In it, the foreman of an establishment located in the Pantanoso reported that for five days he had suspended the plowing work because the entire buoy was sick with an unknown plague ...