CB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 18,1983 Look for vesicular stomatitis WASHINGTON, D.C. When farm animals are infected by vesicular stomatitis, blisters form in their mouths, especially the tongue, and on their lips, noses, teats and feet like the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease. Although vesicular stomatitis causes soreness that makes it hard for cattle, sheep, goats, swine and horses to eat or drink, resulting in loss of weight and curtailed milk production in dairy herds, it’s not con sidered a disaster. Sometimes, people get the disease. U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinari ans say the disease usually is short-lived and rarely is fatal. It runs its course in about two weeks and cuts a herd’s efficiency for only two or three months. A bigger problem: Veterinarians say the symptoms of vesicular stomatitis are so much like those of the devastating foot-and mouth disease that the latter might get a foothold in the United BARTLETT PACKAGING “Full Service Warehouse" Packaging Supplies For - • Poultrymen • Greenhouses • Fruit Growers & Nurseries • Produce • Records & Farmers Storage • Roadside • And Others Stands Pick Up & Delivery Service Give us a call or stop in. We probably have just what you need. Located east of Mt. Joy on Eby’s Cheque Road (2nd building on right) Bartlett Packaging RD 3 Box 340 Mt. Joy, PA 17552 717-653-9444 States if it gets in a herd and is mistaken for the former. In early June, the first case of vesicular stomatitis since March 18 was diagnosed in Avoca, Neb. This country is free of foot-and mouth disease, which is found in other nations and can be distinguished from vesicular stomatitis only by laboratory tests. Therefore, USDA veterinarians are in vestigating all new outbreaks of vesicular stomatitis, says Dr. William Buisch of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and they’re hoping the disease won’t be as big a problem this summer and fall as it was during the same period last year. “From early June last year through May 25 of this year, there were 611 herds in which vesicular stomatitis was diagnosed,” said Buisch. “This disease,” he said, “usually is seen only during the summer months. But it continued to be found in new herds throughout the winter. Some of these new in fections could be traced to the movement of infected cattle from one herd to another, but no sources could be found for other cases. "New cases continue to be found this year, but the number of samples submitted for laboratory tests has fallen off markedly from the large numbers that came in last fall.” Since 1882, the vesicular stomatitis infection has been found in 14 states Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Washington, California, Missouri, Oregon and Kansas. Here's What You Get For Less Than 15' A Week! i I t B it nn* 1 t&B**- \\ \ £rJr '•'''l WF* LATEST INFORMATION from livestock markets and auctions of the East and Mid-West, including futures. OUR MARKET REPORTS are received by phone up to 10 AM on Friday morning...just 2 hours before press time! Our total farm coverage also gives you NEWS (including Dairy & OHIA Reports)... FEATURES ..BEST BUYS ON PRODUCTS & EQUIPMENT.FREE MAILBOX MARKET...and much, much more! 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