First Vesicular Stomatitis Cases Confirmed in Apache County, Arizona
Apache County joins Cochise, Gila, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, and Santa Cruz as Arizona counties affected so far in 2020. | Photo: Wikimedia Commons
In its June 4 Situation Report, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) identified Apache County as newly confirmed with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV).

Apache County joins Cochise, Gila, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, and Santa Cruz as Arizona counties affected so far in 2020. Since APHIS’s last Situation Report dated May 28, a Cochise County premises has been released from quarantine. Counties with currently affected premises include Apache (1), Cochise (1), Maricopa (5), Pinal (1), and Santa Cruz (1).

Premises with confirmed positive and suspect cases are quarantined and monitored by veterinarians for at least 14 days from the onset of lesions in the last animal affected.

VS 101

Vesicular stomatitis virus can cause blisters and sores in the mouth and on the tongue, muzzle, teats, or hooves of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, llamas, and a number of other animals. Lesions usually heal in two or three weeks

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