Re: Ptomac Fever

C.M.Newell (reshan@deyr.ultranet.com)
Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:09:45 -0500

At 10:21 PM 1/10/97 +0000, you wrote:
>greetings from NY (along the frigid st. lawrence river!)
>wasn't there some disease or another being transmitted last year by
>horses coming over the Mexxican border into TX? It wasn't PF,
>obviously, but I'd like to have that one for my files in case I move
>my horse down there!

It was VS--vesicular stomatitis. The main reason the feds were so
concerned about it is that the clinical appearance is identical to foot and
mouth disease.
--CMNewell, DVM