Human Infection with the Virus of Vesicular Stomatitis during an Epizootic

Abstract

IN the summer of 1965 an epizootic of vesicular stomatitis, primarily in cattle, occurred in northwest New Mexico and southwest Colorado. The disease was confirmed as the Indiana type by serologic examination of affected cattle and by isolation of the virus from vesicular lesions of cattle by Dr. E. Jenney, of the National Animal Disease Laboratory, Ames, Iowa.According to preliminary reports obtained from the Animal Health Division, United States Department of Agriculture, the epizootic began in early July in the contiguous counties of Rio Arriba (New Mexico) and La Plata (Colorado) (Fig. 1). The disease spread in an erratic . . .