Examining a Horse’s Mouth
Equus
October 7, 2022
Knowing how to look inside your horse’s mouth safely can help you catch problems early.
Knowing how to look inside your horse’s mouth safely can help you catch problems early.
Vesicular stomatitis primarily affects horses, cows, and pigs, causing fever, drooling, and blisters on the mouth, lips, nose, coronary bands, and teats.
Drought in the West has contributed to a lack of vesicular stomatitis virus in horses and cattle in 2021.
The premises is located in Texas County, Missouri.
All previously quarantined premises have been released.
Kansas and Missouri remain the only states with VSV-quarantined premises.
Kansas and Missouri are the only remaining states with VSV-quarantined premises.
The Missouri vesicular stomatitis outbreak began on July 13.
The state’s VSV-infected and suspect premises have dropped to seven.
Cherokee, Craig, and Rogers counties add new positive and suspect premises with vesicular stomatitis.
Camden and Douglas are newest-hit counties with vesicular stomatitis virus.
Vesicular stomatitis has spread to Harvey and Johnson counties.
The 2019 outbreak of VSV was the largest in recent history with 1,144 premises affected in eight states: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Nine of the state’s counties now contain confirmed positive premises. Cherokee, Osage, and Ottawa counties have new and suspect cases.
USDA/APHIS has announced four new confirmed positive and one new suspect premises.
Twenty-two Kansas counties currently contain premises under vesicular stomatitis quarantine. The newly affected counties include Crawford and Franklin.
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