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EXPLAINER: Foot-and-mouth disease and the efforts to stop it

A man waits for customers as children play with goats he sells, ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 4, 2022. Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

A man feeds cows for sale ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday under a flyover in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 8, 2022. Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

A man walks past cows he sells ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday under a flyover in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 8, 2022. Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

EXPLAINER: Foot-and-mouth disease and the efforts to stop it