. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. ft BULLETIN No. 662 Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry JOHN K. MOHLER, Chief. JZ&Qj-u Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER May 1, 1918 VESICULAR STOMATITIS OF HORSES AND CATTLE. By John R. Mohler, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. CONTENTS. Page. History and characteristics 1 Etiology 3 Symptoms and lesions 4 Contagiousness 5 Differential diagnosis 7 Treatment 9 HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS. Vesicular stomatitis is known in Europe and South Africa, and has been observed occasionally in sporadic fo
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. ft BULLETIN No. 662 Contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry JOHN K. MOHLER, Chief. JZ&Qj-u Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER May 1, 1918 VESICULAR STOMATITIS OF HORSES AND CATTLE. By John R. Mohler, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. CONTENTS. Page. History and characteristics 1 Etiology 3 Symptoms and lesions 4 Contagiousness 5 Differential diagnosis 7 Treatment 9 HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS. Vesicular stomatitis is known in Europe and South Africa, and has been observed occasionally in sporadic form in the United States, but without attracting any particular attention. During the early fall of 1916, however, it became very extensive in certain sections of this country, being especially prevalent in Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, and Wyoming. It was first reported among the horses and mules at remomit stations in the Central West, where large numbers of animals had been collected prior to shipment to Europe for use in the trench and British Armies. Here the disease found ideal conditions for its spread among thousands of these animals closely quartered in barns and pens. From these remount stations in the Central West the disease became distributed by following the channels of trade from the westward markets eastward as far as the Atlantic coast. The affection did not stop even there, as several shipments were made abroad while the horses were in the incubative stage of the disease, and infected American horses were found shortly after arrival in France. Strange as it may seem, the first information that this country was experiencing an outbreak of vesicular stomatitis was reported in an article by the French veterinarian Jacoulet, which appeared in the Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire, December 30, 1915. Owing to the difficulties attending the delivery of these European periodicals since the beginning of the war this copy was not received until several 41674°—18—
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