Hematological analysis of bovine blood was carried out to establish possible variations associated with foot and mouth disease (FMD) infection. Random sampling of FMD infected bovine blood from the reported outbreaks in Bode, Bode II and Buakaru-rotuwa wards in ilesha baruba, Baruten LGA in kwara state was collected forth nightly in December, 2010, January, February, and March, 2011. Serum antibodies detection using NS-ELISA revealed out of the ninety cattle sampled in the fifteen outbreaks, 64 showed positive evidence of FMD with percentage distribution of 37.5% and 62.5% for bulls and cows respectively. This was significant (p 0.05) association with FMD sero-positive cattle by chi square analysis. Therefore, this finding provides preliminary information on hematological variation observed during FMD outbreak. Further experimental case-control study on the hematology of FMD infected cattle is thus suggested.
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