Vesicular stomatitis (VS) is a vesicular disease of horses, cattle, and pigs in the Western Hemisphere caused by viruses in the genus Vesiculovirus. Disease manifests as vesicles and erosions on the oral mucosa, teats, prepuce, and coronary band, and is similar in presentation to foot-and-mouth...

Vesicular stomatitis is an infectious disease that occurs mainly in countries of the Western Hemisphere and affects cattle, swine and horses. The clinical symptoms in cattle and swine are similar to foot-and-mouth disease and include vesicular ulceration of the tongue and mouth. The disease...

A matrix system was developed to aid in the evaluation of the technical amenability to eradication, through mass vaccination, of transboundary animal diseases (TADs). The system involved evaluation of three basic criteria - disease management efficiency, surveillance and epidemiological factors -...

This issue is comprised of 28 papers covering animal health policy and welfare, animal diseases, new diagnostic methods, epidemiology of several diseases and food safety. Animal diseases given focus in the papers include bluetongue, trypanosomiasis, camelpox, brucellosis, foot and mouth disease,...

This proceedings contains 21 papers focusing on epidemiological methods, animal disease control evaluation, animal disease control impact assessment, risk analysis, animal disease surveillance, socioeconomic aspects of animal diseases and risk factors of animal diseases.

This document contains 170 abstracts of papers presented at the first National Veterinary Epidemiology meeting covering the epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases of animals and man as well as techniques used in studying the epidemiology of these diseases. Focus is given on the...

Sporadic outbreaks of vesicular stomatitis (VS) in the United States result in significant economic losses for the U.S. livestock industries because VS is a reportable disease that clinically mimics foot-and-mouth disease. Rapid and accurate differentiation of these 2 diseases is critical because...

This section is comprised of abstracts of papers (n=11) and posters (n=9) presented at the Back to Basics Congress of the South African Association of Veterinary Technologists (SAAVT). Focus is given on different aspects (diagnosis, detection, prevalence, control, prevention, taxonomy and genetics) ...

SWINE FEVER: a trial of the Chinese strain of lapinized virus showed that it was safe to use as a vaccine in Belgium. Antibodies to porcine picorna-virus (SMEDI virus) were found in at least 59 of 194 serum samples; their incidence did not seem to be related to abortion and sterility. A comparison...

The Veterinary Division of the Ministry of Animal and Forest Resources was being subdivided into three Divisions-the Animal Health Division covers all matters relating to Animal Health, the investigation services, and Staff training. An Animal Husbandry Division has recently been created to deal...