Vesicular Stomatitis

Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) is a reportable viral disease of horses, donkeys, mules, cattle, swine, and New World camelids throughout the Western Hemisphere. Disease is characterized by painful vesicular and crusting lesions and can occur in individual animals or as an outbreak.

Clinical signs include vesicle formation that rapidly progresses to ulceration; ulcerative stomatitis, with the tongue being the most severely affected area; ulceration of the mucocutaneous junction of the lips; crusting of the muzzle and nares; excessive salivation; difficulty prehending and masticating feed; and coronitis, often with lameness