“…In 2001, the Ind2001 lineage of FMDV was first documented in the Indian subcontinent and became the dominant lineage until 2008, although archival samples from 1997 suggest an earlier appearance (Hemadri, Tosh, Sanyal, & Venkataramanan, ; Knowles, Samuel, Davies, Midgley, & Valarcher, ; Subramaniam et al, ). Since 2013, outbreaks caused by this lineage were reported in different countries in Asia (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Mongolia, South Korea, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and China), Africa (Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Europe (Russia) (Bachanek‐Bankowska et al, ; Knowles et al, ; Nishi et al, ; Qiu et al, ; Ryoo et al, ; Siddique et al, ; Zhu et al, ). The FMDV Ind2001 lineage is divided into five sublineages, Ind2001a, Ind2001b, Ind2001c, Ind2001d and the newly designated sublineage Ind2001e (Bachanek‐Bankowska et al, ).…”