Hoof/Foot & Mouth vs Anthrax?

Factual Questions
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I’m trying to figure out the terminology being used in the European livestock epidemic. I always had the impression that the term “hoof and mouth disease” was a folk way of saying “anthrax.” I also know that “hand, foot, and mouth disease” is something that little kids get.

But I’ve been hearing “foot and mouth disease” exclusively about the current European epidemic. Is this the same thing as “hoof and mouth disease”? Is it the same as anthrax?

I recall a scene from the movie Blazing Saddles, where the townsfolk are in a bar, and one man says something like “They say that right now over in France, as we speak, Louis Pasteur is developing a cure for anthrax. Imagine - hoof and mouth disease a thing of the past.” Right then, the man he was talking to said “Never mind that shit, here comes Mongo!”

Could Mel Brooks have given me a bum steer, so to speak? Can anthrax be cured/prevented by a something Pasteur did, such as a vaccine?

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Foot-and-mouth disease (AKA hoof-and-mouth disease) is viral infection affecting a wide variety of herbivores. Humans can’t catch it, although we can help spread it around (I believe mainly by having the virus adhere to clothing and so on, not by being “carriers”). F-&-M was discussed in this thread and this thread.

Anthrax is a bacterial infection, which humans can catch, and which can be quite lethal to us. It’s one of the more commonly mentioned potential biological warfare agents.

Looks like Mel Brooks has done you wrong.